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The MIDI editors
Key Editor operations
Moving and transposing notes
To move notes in the editor, use any of the following methods:
• 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 490.
• Use the up and down arrow keys on the computer keyboard.
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 transpose
functions” on page 161.
Ö You can also use the Transpose function on the MIDI menu (see “Transpose” on page
472).
• Use the Move to Cursor function on the Edit menu (Move to submenu).
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 499.
• Use the Move buttons in the Nudge palette on the toolbar.
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 700.
Ö When you move selected notes to a different position, any selected controllers for
these notes will move accordingly. For further information, see also
“Moving events”
on page 506.
Ö You can also adjust the position of notes by quantizing (see “Quantizing MIDI and
Audio” on page 134).
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 490).
• 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”, maintaining 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.
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You can restrict movement to horizontal or vertical by holding down [Ctrl]/[Command]
while dragging.