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The MIDI editors
• To step from one note to another, use the left and right
arrow keys on the computer keyboard.
If you press [Shift] and use the arrow keys, the current selection will be
kept, allowing you to select several notes.
• To select all notes of a certain pitch, press [Ctrl]/[Com-
mand] and click on the desired key in the keyboard display
to the left.
• To select all the following notes of the same pitch, you
can press [Shift] and double-click on a note.
Ö If the “Auto Select Events under Cursor” option is acti-
vated in the Preferences dialog (Editing page), all notes
“touched” by the project cursor are automatically selected.
Toggle selections
If you want to toggle the selected elements within a selec-
tion rectangle, press [Ctrl]/[Command] and enclose the
same elements within a new selection rectangle. Once
you release the mouse button, the previous selection is
deselected and vice versa.
Selecting controllers within the note range
You can select the controllers within the range of the se-
lected notes. The following applies:
• When the Auto Select Controllers button is activated
on the toolbar, the controllers will always be selected
when the respective notes are selected.
• When you select “Select Controllers in Note Range” on
the Select submenu of the Edit menu, the controllers within
the note range (i.
e. between the first/leftmost and last/right-
most note) will be selected.
Please note that for this to work, only two notes have to be selected.
• A note range lasts until the start of the next note or the
end of the part.
• Selected controllers for notes are moved when the cor-
responding notes are moved.
Moving and transposing notes
To move notes in the editor, use any of the following me-
thods:
• Select the notes and use the buttons on the Transpose
Palette on the toolbar.
• 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 381.
• 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. 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 trans-
pose functions” on page 131.
Ö You can also use the Transpose function on the MIDI
menu (see
“Transpose” on page 367).
• 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 386.
• 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 is not shown on the toolbar. How
to show/hide toolbar items is described in the section
“Using the Setup
options” on page 534.
Equal Pitch –
same Octave
As above, but selects notes of the exact same pitch only
(same octave).
Select Con-
trollers in Note
Range
Selects the MIDI controller data within range of the se-
lected notes, see below.
Option Description
All notes of the cor-
responding pitch are
selected.
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You can restrict movement to horizontal or vertical by
holding down [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging.