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The MIDI editors
Moving and transposing notes
To move notes in the editor, use any of the following me-
thods:
• Click and drag to a new position.
All selected notes will be moved, maintaining their relative positions. If
Snap is activated, this determines to which positions you can move the
notes, see “Snap” on page 343.
• Use the up and down arrow keys on the computer key-
board.
This method allows you to transpose the selected notes, without risking
to move them horizontally. You can also use the Transpose function (see
“Transpose” on page 330) or the info line (see “The info line” on page
339) for this. Note that pressing [Shift] and using the up and down arrow
keys will transpose notes in steps of one octave.
Transpose is also affected by the global transpose setting, see “The
Transpose functions” on page 111.
• Use the Move to Cursor function on the Edit menu.
This moves the selected notes to the project cursor position.
• Select a note and adjust its position or pitch on the info
line.
See “Editing on the info line” on page 348.
• Use the Move buttons in the Nudge palette on the tool-
bar.
This moves the selected note(s) by the amount set on the Quantize pop-
up menu.
By default, the Nudge palette isn’t shown on the toolbar – see “The Se-
tup dialogs” on page 466 for more information.
Ö Note that when you move selected notes to a different
position, any selected controllers for these notes will move
accordingly.
See also “Moving and copying events” on page 353.
You can also adjust the position of notes by quantizing
(see “The Quantizing functions” on page 325).
Duplicating and repeating notes
Notes are duplicated much in the same way as events in
the Project window:
• Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the note(s) to a new
position.
If Snap is activated, this determines to which positions you can copy
notes (see “Snap” on page 343).
• Selecting Duplicate from the Edit menu creates a copy
of the selected note and places it directly after the original.
If several notes are selected, all of these are copied “as one unit”, main-
taining the relative distance between the notes.
• Selecting Repeat from the Edit menu opens a dialog, al-
lowing you to create a number of copies of the selected
note(s).
This works like the Duplicate function, but you can specify the number of
copies.
• You can also perform the Repeat function by dragging:
Select the note(s) to repeat, press [Alt]/[Option], click the
right edge of the last selected note and drag to the right.
The longer to the right you drag, the more copies are created (as indi-
cated by the tool tip).
Using cut and paste
You can use the Cut, Copy and Paste options on the Edit
menu to move or copy material within a part or between
different parts. When you paste copied notes, you can ei-
ther use the regular Paste function or the function “Paste
Time” from the Range submenu of the Edit menu.
• “Paste” inserts the copied notes at the project cursor position
without affecting existing notes.
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Note also that you can restrict movement to horizon-
tal or vertical only by holding down [Ctrl]/[Command]
while dragging.