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The MIDI editors
Ö When you move selected notes to a different position,
any selected controllers for these notes will move accord-
ingly. For further information, see also “Moving events” on
page 392.
Ö You can also adjust the position of notes by quantizing
(see “Quantizing MIDI and audio” on page 108).
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 381).
• Selecting Duplicate from the Functions submenu on 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 Functions submenu on
the Edit menu opens a dialog, allowing 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 indicated
by the tooltip).
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.
• “Paste Time” inserts at the project cursor position, but
moves (and if necessary, splits) existing notes to make
room for the pasted notes.
Resizing notes
To resize a note, use one of the following methods:
• Position the Arrow tool at the start or end of the note, so
that the pointer takes on the shape of a small double ar-
row. Click and drag to the left or right to resize the note.
This method allows you to resize the note from either direction.
• If you want to apply time-stretching to the controller
(and Note Expression data, Cubase only) associated with
the note that you resize, you can select the “Sizing Applies
Time Stretch” mode for the Arrow tool before resizing the
note.
This resizing mode works exactly as in the Project window, see “Resizing
events using time stretch” on page 64.
• Click with the Pencil tool within the note box and drag
to the left or the right (to make the note shorter or longer,
respectively).
With these methods, the resulting length will be a multiple
of the Length Quantize value on the toolbar.
• Use the Trim Start/End buttons on the Nudge palette on
the toolbar.
This resizes the selected note(s) by moving their start or end positions, in
steps according to the Length Quantize value on the toolbar. By default,
the Nudge palette is not shown on the toolbar – see
“Using the Setup
options” on page 534 for more information.
• Select the note and adjust its length on the info line.
See “Editing on the info line” on page 386 for details on info line editing.
• Use the Trim tool, see “Using the Trim tool” on page 380.
Selecting “Paste Time” with this data on the clipboard
and the project cursor here…
…will give you this.