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The MIDI editors
• To edit a single note, click on it with the Trim tool. The
range between the mouse cursor and the end of the note
will be removed.
You can use the mouse position display in the toolbar to find the exact
position for the trim operation.
• To edit several notes, click and drag with the mouse
across the notes.
A line is displayed. The notes will be trimmed along this line.
Trimming the end of three note events.
• By default, the Trim tool will cut off the end of notes. To
trim the beginning of the note(s), press [Alt]/[Option] while
dragging.
• If you press [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging, you will
get a vertical trim line, allowing you to set the same start or
end time for all edited notes.
You can change the Trim tool key commands in the Pref-
erences (Editing–Tool Modifiers page).
Ö Note that when you trim the beginning of a note in the
List Editor, the note may move to a different position in the
list (since other events may now begin before the edited
event).
Ö Note that the trimmed note ends don’t snap to the grid.
Playing back
You can play back your music as usual when working in a
MIDI editor. There are several features designed to make
editing easier during playback:
Solo button
If you activate the Solo button, only the edited MIDI parts
will be heard during regular playback.
Autoscroll
As described in the section “Autoscroll” on page 58, the
Autoscroll function makes the window “follow” the project
cursor during playback, so that the current play position is
visible at all times. However, when you are working in a
MIDI editor, you may want to deactivate Autoscroll – this
way, the events you are working with will stay visible.
The Autoscroll buttons in each MIDI editor are indepen-
dent of the Project window Autoscroll setting, which
means that Autoscroll can be activated in the Project win-
dow and deactivated in the MIDI editor you are working in.
The independent track loop
The independent track loop is a sort of “mini-cycle”, affect-
ing only the MIDI part being edited. When the loop is acti-
vated, the MIDI events within the loop will be repeated
continuously and completely independent – other events
(on other tracks) will be played back as usual. The only “in-
teraction” between the loop and the “regular playback” is
that every time the cycle starts over again, so does the loop.
To set up the independent track loop, proceed as follows:
1. Activate the loop by clicking on the Loop button on the
toolbar.
If it isn’t visible, right-click the toolbar and add the Independent Track
Loop Settings section – see “The Setup dialogs” on page 466.
When the loop is activated, the cycle isn’t shown in the
ruler.
2. Now you need to specify the length of the loop. You
have the following possibilities:
• [Ctrl]/[Command]-click and [Alt]/[Option]-click in the
ruler to set the start and end of the loop, respectively.
• Edit the loop start and end positions numerically in the
fields next to the Loop button.
• Click and drag in the upper part of the ruler to move the
locators to the desired positions.