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The MIDI editors
• If you click once, the created note will have the length
set on the Length Quantize pop-up menu on the toolbar.
You can create a longer note by clicking and dragging. The length of the
created note will be a multiple of the Length Quantize value.
Drawing notes with the Line tool
The Line tool can be used for creating series of contigu-
ous notes. To do so, click and drag to draw a line and then
release the mouse button.
Ö The Line tool has several different modes.
To select one of the modes, click on the Line tool icon on the toolbar
when the tool is already selected. This opens a pop-up menu from which
you can select one of the Line tool modes.
The tool icon will change appearance according to the se-
lected mode.
Setting velocity values
When you draw notes in the Key Editor, the notes will get
the velocity value set in the insert velocity field on the tool-
bar.
You can use one of four different methods for determining
the velocity:
• When a tool modifier is assigned for the Select tool–
Edit Velocity action (in the Editing–Tool Modifiers page of
the Preferences dialog), you can select one or more notes,
press the modifier (by default [Ctrl]/[Command]-[Shift])
and click on one of the selected notes to change the ve-
locity.
The cursor changes into a speaker and, next to the note, a field with the
velocity value appears – the Note Velocity slider. Move the mouse
pointer up or down to change the value. Value changes will be applied to
all selected notes, as you can see in the controller lane.
• Selecting a predefined velocity value from the insert ve-
locity pop-up menu.
The menu contains five different predefined velocity values. The “Setup…”
item opens a dialog that allows you to specify which five velocity values
should be available on the pop-up menu. (This dialog can also be opened
by selecting “Insert Velocities…” from the MIDI menu.)
• Manually entering the desired velocity value by clicking
in the insert velocity field and typing in the desired value.
• Using a key command.
You can assign a key command to each of the five available velocity val-
ues in the Key Commands dialog (MIDI category – the items Insert Ve-
locity 1–5). This allows for quick switching between different velocity
values when entering notes. See “Setting up key commands” on page
480 for instructions on how to set up key commands.
Mode Description
Line This is the default mode for the Line tool. When this
mode is selected, you click and drag to create a straight
line, in any angle. When you release the mouse button a
series of notes will be created, aligned with the line. If
Snap is activated, the notes will be spaced and sized ac-
cording to the Quantize value.
Parabola, Sine,
Triangle,
Square
These modes insert events along different curve shapes.
While they can be used for creating notes, they’re proba-
bly best suited for controller editing (see “Adding and
editing events in the controller display” on page 353).
Paint Allows you to insert multiple notes by dragging with the
mouse button pressed. If Snap is activated, the notes will
be positioned and sized according to the Quantize and
Length Quantize values. If you press [Ctrl]/[Command]
while painting, movement will be restricted to horizontal
only (i.e. the painted notes will have the same pitch).