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The MIDI editors
Toggle selections
If you want to toggle the selected elements within a selec-
tion rectangle, press [Ctrl]/[Command] and enclose the
same elements within a new selection rectangle. Once
you release the mouse button, the previous selection is
deselected and vice versa.
Selecting controllers within the note range
You can select the controllers within the range of the se-
lected notes. The following applies:
• When the Auto Select Controllers button is activated
on the toolbar, the controllers will always be selected
when the respective notes are selected.
• A note range lasts until the start of the next note or the
end of the part.
• Selected controllers for notes are moved when the cor-
responding notes are moved.
Moving and transposing notes
To move notes in the editor, use any of the following me-
thods:
• 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 187.
• Use the up and down arrow keys on the computer key-
board.
This method allows you to transpose the selected notes, without risking
to move them horizontally. You can also use the Transpose function (see
“Transpose” on page 176) for this. Note that pressing [Shift] and using
the up and down arrow keys will transpose notes in steps of one octave.
• Use the Move to Cursor function on the Edit menu.
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 192.
• Use the Move buttons in the Nudge palette on the tool-
bar.
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 – see “Using
the Setup options” on page 262 for more information.
Ö Note that when you move selected notes to a different
position, any selected controllers for these notes will move
accordingly.
See also “Moving and copying events” on page 197.
You can also adjust the position of notes by quantizing
(see “The Quantizing functions” on page 172).
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 187).
• Selecting Duplicate from 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 Edit menu opens a dia-
log, allowing you to create a number of copies of the se-
lected 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 indi-
cated by the tooltip).
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Note also that you can restrict movement to horizon-
tal or vertical only by holding down [Ctrl]/[Command]
while dragging.