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The MIDI editors
• To select more notes, hold down [Shift] and click on
them.
• To deselect notes, hold [Shift] down and click on them
again.
• If you hold down [Shift] and double-click on a note, this
note and all the following notes in the same staff are se-
lected.
Using a selection rectangle
1. Press the mouse button with the Arrow tool in some
free (white) space in the score.
2. Drag the mouse pointer to create a selection rectan-
gle.
You can drag to select notes on several voices or staves if you wish.
3. Release the mouse button.
All notes with their note heads inside the rectangle get selected.
• If you want to deselect one or more of the notes, hold
down [Shift] and click as described above.
Using the keyboard
By default, you can step through the notes in the staff us-
ing the left and right arrow keys. If you press [Shift], you
will select the notes as you step through them.
• If you want to use other keys for selecting notes, you
can customize the settings in the Key Commands dialog
(in the Navigate category).
Deselecting everything
• To deselect everything, simply click with the Arrow tool
in some “free” (white) space in the score.
Deleting notes
Notes can be deleted in two ways:
Using the Erase tool
1. Select the Erase tool from the toolbar or context menu.
2. One at a time, click on the note(s) you want to erase,
or drag over them with the mouse button pressed.
Using the keyboard or delete menu item
1. Select the note(s) you want to delete.
2. Select Delete from the Edit menu, or press [Delete] or
[Backspace] on the computer keyboard.
Moving notes
To move or transpose notes, proceed as follows:
1. Set the Quantize value.
2. If you want to hear the pitch of the note while moving,
activate the Acoustic Feedback button (speaker icon) on
the toolbar.
When it is on, you will hear the current pitch of the “dragged” note.
3. Select the notes that you want to move.
4. Click one of the selected notes and drag it to a new
position and/or pitch.
The horizontal movement of the note is “magnetically attracted” to the
current Quantize value. The position boxes on the toolbar show what the
new position and pitch for the dragged note will be.
5. Release the mouse.
The notes appear at their new position.
• If you hold [Ctrl]/[Command] and drag, movement is re-
stricted to vertical or horizontal (depending on the direc-
tion in which you drag).
• You can also move selected notes by using key com-
mands, as assigned in the Nudge category in the Key
Commands dialog.
When moving notes to the left or right using key commands, the notes
will be moved in steps according to the current Quantize value. The keys
assigned for up/down nudging will transpose notes in semitone steps.
Duplicating notes
1. Set the Quantize value and select the notes, as for
moving.
2. Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the notes to their
new position.
• If you want to restrict movements to one direction, press
[Ctrl]/[Command].
This works just as for moving, as described above.
• [Alt]/[Option] is the default modifier key for copying/du-
plicating. If you like, you can change this in the Prefer-
ences dialog (Editing–Tool Modifiers page).
The entry for this is found in the Drag & Drop category (“Copy”).