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Tutorial 3: Recording and editing MIDI
12. Now move and copy this drum part so that the rest of
the song has a drum beat.
Move and copy were discussed in the chapter “Tutorial 2: Editing audio”
on page 33.
13. Glue all the parts together as one.
The Glue tool was discussed in the chapter “Tutorial 2: Editing audio” on
page 33.
The Key Editor
The Key Editor is where we can make changes to our MIDI
data.
Erasing MIDI notes
1. Double-click on the “Drums” part so that the Key Editor
opens.
Here we can see our drum notes lined up with a keyboard on the left. At
the bottom we have the velocity of each of the MIDI notes and at the top
we can see the time ruler.
2. We want the song to start off with hi-hat and kick
drum. Erase the snare by clicking once and holding the
mouse while dragging a selection over the snare drum.
Make your selection from bars 1 through 8.
A common term for this is to “lasso” the notes.
3. Press the [Delete] key to delete the snare notes.
4. Zoom in on the bar 1 and delete all the hit-hat notes
with the Erase tool of the Key Editor so that you only hear
1/4 notes.
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Load the project called “Key Editor” found in the
“Tutorial 3” folder.
The Drum MIDI notesThe Drum MIDI velocities
Keyboard notes
Time ruler