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MIDI processing and quantizing
Transpose
The Transpose item on the MIDI menu opens a dialog with
settings for transposing the selected notes:
Ö You can also use the Transpose track for transposing,
see “The Transpose functions” on page 111.
Semitones
This is where you set the amount of transposition.
Scale Correction
Scale Correction transposes the selected notes by for-
cing them to the closest note of the selected scale type.
This can be used for creating interesting key and tonal
changes, either by itself or in conjunction with the other
settings in the Transpose dialog.
• To activate Scale Correction, click the checkbox.
• Select a root note and scale type for the current scale
from the upper pop-up menus.
• Select a root note and scale type for the new scale from
the lower pop-up menus.
Make sure to select the correct root note if you want to keep the result in
the same key as the original notes, or select an entirely different key if you
want to experiment.
Keep Notes in Range
When this is activated, transposed notes will remain
within the Upper and Lower Limit values.
• If a note ends up outside the limits after transposition, it
will be shifted to another octave, keeping the correct
transposed pitch if possible.
If this isn’t possible (if you have set a very narrow range between the Up-
per and Lower Limit), the note will be transposed “as far as possible”, i.e.
to the Upper or Lower Limit note. If you set the Upper and Lower Limits
to the same value, all notes will be transposed to this pitch!
OK and Cancel
Clicking OK performs the transposition. Clicking Cancel
closes the dialog without transposing.
Making your settings permanent
The settings described in the chapter “MIDI realtime para-
meters and effects” on page 315 do not change the MIDI
events themselves, but work like a “filter”, affecting the
music on playback. Therefore, you may want to make them
permanent, i.e. convert them to “real” MIDI events, for ex-
ample to transpose a track and then edit the transposed
notes in a MIDI editor. For this, you can use two com-
mands from the MIDI menu:
• “Freeze MIDI Modifiers” – This applies all filter settings
permanently to the respective track.
With this function, the settings are “added” to the events on the track,
and all modifiers will be set to zero.
• “Merge MIDI in Loop” – This merges all selected tracks
(or parts) to create a new track.
The settings are applied during the merge and will still be displayed later
in the respective menus.
These two functions are described in the following sec-
tions.