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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.
This is described in the chapter “Tutorial 2: Editing audio” on page 32.
13. Glue all the parts together as one.
This is described in the chapter “Tutorial 2: Editing audio” on page 32.
The Key Editor
In the Key Editor we can make changes to our MIDI data.
Erasing MIDI notes
1. Double-click on the “Drums” to open the Key Editor.
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.
5. Now erase all the other hi-hat notes from bar 2
through 8 using any method you like.
Copying MIDI notes
Let’s copy the MIDI notes in bar 1 to bars 2 through 8.
1. Lasso the hi-hat notes in bar 1. Hold down [Alt]/[Option]
and drag the notes in bar 1 to bar 2. This copies them.
2. Continue copying until bar 9.
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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