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The MIDI editors
3. Use the note buttons on the toolbar to decide which
properties are changed by the MIDI input.
You can enable editing of pitch, note-on and/or note-off velocity.
With this setting, the edited notes will get the pitch and velocity values
of the notes input via MIDI, but the note-off velocities will be kept as
they are.
4. Play a note on your MIDI instrument.
The note selected in the editor will get the pitch, velocity and/or note-off
velocity of the played note.
The next note in the edited part is automatically selected,
making it easy to quickly edit a series of notes.
• If you want another try, select the note again (e. g. by
pressing the left arrow key on the computer keyboard) and
again play a note on your MIDI instrument.
Step input
Step input, or step recording, is when you enter notes one
at a time (or one chord at a time) without worrying about
the exact timing. This is useful, for example, when you
know the part you want to record but are not able to play it
exactly as you want it.
Proceed as follows:
1. Click the Step Input button on the toolbar to activate
Step Input mode.
2. Use the note buttons to the right to decide which
properties are included when you input the notes.
For example, you may not want to include the velocity and/or note-off ve-
locity of the played notes. It is also possible to turn off the pitch property,
in which case all notes will get the pitch C3, no matter what you play.
3. Click anywhere in the note display to set the start po-
sition (the desired position of the first note or chord).
The step input position is shown as a blue line in the note display.
4. Specify the desired note spacing and length with the
Quantize and Length Quantize pop-up menus.
The notes you input will be positioned according to the Quantize value
and have the length set with the Length Quantize value. For instance, if
you set Quantize to 1/8 notes and Length Quantize to 1/16 notes, the
notes will be sixteenth notes, appearing on each eighth note position
Ö If “Length Quantize” is set to “Quantize Link” the note
length is also determined by the Quantize value.
5. Play the first note or chord on your MIDI instrument.
The note or chord appears in the editor and the step input position ad-
vances one quantize value step.
Ö If Move Insert Mode is activated, all notes to the right
of the step input position will be moved to “make room” for
the inserted note or chord.
Move Insert Mode is activated.
6. Continue in the same way with the rest of the notes or
chords.
You can adjust the Quantize or Length Quantize value as you go along,
to change the timing or note lengths. You can also move the step input
position manually by clicking anywhere in the note display.
• To insert a “rest”, press the right arrow key on the com-
puter keyboard.
This advances the step input position one step.
7. When you are done, click the Step Input button again
to deactivate step input.
Using the controller display
By default, the controller display has a single lane, show-
ing one event type at a time. However, you can add as
many lanes as you need. The use of several controller
lanes allows you to view and edit different controllers at
the same time.