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MIDI processing and quantizing
Making your settings permanent
The settings described in the chapter “MIDI realtime para-
meters and effects” on page 305 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.
Freeze MIDI Modifiers
The “Freeze MIDI Modifiers” function affects the following
settings for MIDI tracks:
• Several settings on the main tab of the Inspector (program
and bank selection and the Delay parameter).
• The settings on the MIDI Modifiers tab (i.e. Transpose, Veloc-
ity Shift, Velocity Compression and Length Compression).
• The settings on the MIDI Inserts tab (if, e.g., you are using an ar-
peggiator and want to convert the added notes to real events).
The following settings for MIDI parts are taken into account
as well:
• The Transpose and Velocity settings for parts displayed on the
info line – the Volume setting is not taken into account.
To use the “Freeze MIDI Modifiers” function, proceed as
follows:
1. Select the desired MIDI track.
2. Pull down the MIDI menu and select “Freeze MIDI
Modifiers”.
The Inspector settings will be converted to MIDI events and inserted at
the beginning of the part(s). All notes of the part(s) will be modified ac-
cordingly and the Inspector settings will be reset.
Merge MIDI in Loop
The “Merge MIDI in Loop” function combines all MIDI
events on all unmuted tracks, applies MIDI modifiers and
effects and generates a new MIDI part, containing all the
events as you would hear them play back. Proceed as
follows:
1. Make sure only the desired MIDI track(s) are unmuted.
If you only want to include events from a single track in the merge opera-
tion, you may want to solo the track.
2. Set up the left and right locators to encompass the
area you want to merge.
Only events starting within this area will be included.
3. Select the track on which you want the new part to be
created.
This can be a new track or an existing track. Data in the cycle area on the
track can be kept or overwritten (see below).
4. Select “Merge MIDI in Loop” from the MIDI menu.
A dialog appears with the following options:
5. Click OK.
A new part is created between the locators on the destination track, con-
taining the processed MIDI events.
Applying effects to a single part
Normally, the MIDI modifiers and effects affect a whole
MIDI track. This may not always be what you want – you
may want to apply some MIDI effects to a single part for
example (without having to create a separate track for that
part only). The Merge MIDI in Loop function can help:
1. Set up your MIDI modifiers and MIDI effects the way
you want them for the part.
This will of course affect the whole track, but focus on the part for now.
Option Description
Include Inserts If this is activated, any MIDI insert effects currently acti-
vated for the track(s) will be applied.
Include Sends If this is activated, any MIDI send effects currently acti-
vated for the track(s) will be applied.
Erase
Destination
If this is activated, all MIDI data between the left and right
locator on the destination track will be deleted.
Include Chase If this is activated, events placed outside the selected part
but relating to it will be included in the processing, e.g. a
Program Change right before the left locator. For more
about chase events, see “About Chase” on page 64.