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The MIDI editors
Coloring notes and events
By using the Colors pop-up menu on the toolbar, you can
select a color scheme for the events in the editor. The fol-
lowing options are available:
When any of the options (apart from “Part”) is selected,
you can select “Setup…” from the Colors pop-up menu.
This opens a dialog in which you can specify which colors
should be associated with which velocities, pitches or
channels, respectively.
Creating and editing notes
To draw in new notes in the Key Editor, you use the Pencil
tool or the Line tool.
Drawing notes with the Pencil tool
With the Pencil tool, you insert single notes by clicking at
the desired time (horizontal) and pitch position (vertical).
• When you move the pointer in the note display, its bar
position is indicated in the toolbar, and its pitch is indicated
both in the toolbar and on the piano keyboard to the left.
This makes it easy to find the right note and insert position.
• If Snap is activated, this determines the start position of
the created note.
• If you click once, the created note will have the length
set on the Length Quantize pop-up menu on the toolbar.
You can create a longer note by clicking and dragging. The length of the
created note will be a multiple of the Length Quantize value.
Drawing notes with the Line tool
The Line tool can be used for creating series of contigu-
ous notes. To do so, click and drag to draw a line and then
release the mouse button.
Ö The Line tool has several different modes.
To select one of the modes, click on the Line tool icon on the toolbar
when the tool is already selected. This opens a pop-up menu from which
you can select one of the Line tool modes.
The tool icon will change appearance according to the se-
lected mode.
Option Description
Velocity The notes get different colors depending on their velocity
values.
Pitch The notes get different colors depending on their pitch.
Channel The notes get different colors depending on their MIDI
channel value.
Part The notes get the same color as their respective part in
the Project window. Use this option when you are work-
ing with two or more tracks in an editor, to make it easier
to see which notes belong to which track.
GridMatch The notes get different colors depending on their time
position. This mode makes it easy to see e.g. if the notes
in a chord start at the exact same beat.
Mode Description
Line This is the default mode for the Line tool. When this
mode is selected, you click and drag to create a straight
line, in any angle. When you release the mouse button a
series of notes will be created, aligned with the line. If
Snap is activated, the notes will be spaced and sized ac-
cording to the Quantize value.
Parabola, Sine,
Triangle,
Square
These modes insert events along different curve shapes.
While they can be used for creating notes, they are prob-
ably best suited for controller editing (see “Adding and
editing events in the controller display” on page 195).
Paint Allows you to insert multiple notes by dragging with the
mouse button pressed. If Snap is activated, the notes will
be positioned and sized according to the Quantize and
Length Quantize values. If you press [Ctrl]/[Command]
while painting, movement will be restricted to horizontal
(i.e. the painted notes will have the same pitch).