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The MIDI editors
The status line
The status line is displayed below the toolbar in the Key
Editor.
It displays the following information:
• To show or hide the status line, click the “Set up Win-
dow Layout” button on the toolbar and activate or deacti-
vate the “Status Line” option.
The info line
The info line shows information about the selected MIDI
note. If several notes are selected, the values for the first
note are displayed (in color). You can edit all values on the
info line using regular value editing (see
“Editing on the
info line” on page 264 for details). Length and position
values are displayed in the format currently selected for
the ruler.
• To show or hide the info line, click the “Set up Window
Layout” button on the toolbar and activate or deactivate
the “Info Line” option.
The ruler
The ruler shows the timeline, by default in the display format
selected on the Transport panel. You can select a separate
format for a MIDI editor ruler on the Ruler pop-up menu,
opened by clicking the arrow button to the right of it. For a
list of the available formats, see
“The ruler” on page 34.
At the bottom of the pop-up menu, there are two addi-
tional items:
• If “Time Linear” is selected, the ruler, note display, and
controller display will be linear in relation to time.
This means that if the ruler shows bars and beats, the distance between
the bar lines will vary depending on the tempo.
• If “Bars+Beats Linear” is selected, the ruler, note display,
and controller display will be linear in relation to tempo.
This means that if the ruler shows bars and beats, the distance between
beats will be constant.
In most cases, you would set the display format to
“Bars+Beats” and “Bars+Beats Linear” mode when
editing MIDI.
The Key Editor Inspector
On the left in the Key Editor, you will find the Inspector. It
contains tools and functions for working with MIDI data.
The Quantize section
The Quantize section allows you to access the main quan-
tize parameters. These are identical with the functions on
the Quantize panel (see
“The Quantize Panel” on page 92)
and the Advanced Quantize submenu of the Edit menu (see
“Advanced Quantize functions” on page 91).
The Transpose section
The Transpose section allows you to access the main pa-
rameters for transposing MIDI events. These can also be
found in the Transpose dialog, see
“Transpose” on page
245.
The Length section
The Length section contains the length-related options
from the Functions submenu of the MIDI menu (see “Other
MIDI functions” on page 248) as well as a Length/Legato
slider.
Option Description
Mouse Time
Position
This displays the exact time position of the mouse pointer,
in the format selected for the ruler, allowing you to perform
editing or to insert notes at exact positions.
Mouse Note
Position
This displays the exact pitch of the mouse pointer posi-
tion, making it easier to find the right pitch when entering
or transposing notes.
Current Chord
Display
When the project cursor is positioned over notes making
up a chord, this chord is displayed here.