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The MIDI editors
• Use the “Scale Length/Legato” slider to change the
length of the selected MIDI events (or all events of the ac-
tive part if no events are selected).
At the maximum value the notes reach the beginning of the next note.
• Use the “Freeze MIDI Lengths” button to the right of the
“Scale Length/Legato” slider to make the new length set-
tings permanent.
• Use the Overlap slider to finetune the distance between
consecutive notes.
At “0 Ticks”, the “Scale Legato” slider extends each note so that it
reaches the next note exactly. Positive values cause the notes to overlap
and negative values allow you to define a small gap between the notes.
• Activate the “Between Selected” option if you want to
use the Legato function or slider to extend a note until the
next selected note (instead of the following note in the part).
This is identical with activating the “Legato Mode: Between Selected
Notes Only” option in the Preferences dialog.
The note display
The note display is the main area in the Key Editor. It con-
tains a grid in which MIDI notes are shown as boxes. The
width of a box corresponds to the note length, and the
vertical position of a box corresponds to the note number
(pitch), with higher notes higher up in the grid. The piano
keyboard helps you to find the right note number.
For a description of how to display colors in the note dis-
play, see “Coloring notes and events” on page 259.
The controller display
The area at the bottom of the Key Editor window is the
controller display. It consists of one or several controller
lanes, each showing one of the following properties or
event types:
• Velocity values of the notes
• Pitchbend events
• Aftertouch events
• Poly Pressure events
• Program Change events
• SysEx events
• Any type of continuous controller event (see “Editing continu-
ous controllers on the controller lane” on page 269)
To change the size of the controller display, drag the di-
vider between the controller display and the note display.
Velocity values are shown as vertical bars in the controller
display, with higher bars corresponding to higher velocity
values.
Each velocity bar corresponds to a note in the note display.
Events other than velocity values are shown as blocks, the
heights of which correspond to the values of the events.
The beginning of an event is marked by a curve point. To
select an event, click on the curve point, so that it turns red.
Ö Unlike notes, events in the controller display have no
length. The value of an event in the display is “valid” until
the start of the next event.
For a description of editing in the controller display, see
“Using the controller display” on page 265.
Key Editor operations
Zooming
Zooming in the Key Editor is done according to the stan-
dard zoom procedures, using the zoom sliders, the Zoom
tool or the Zoom submenu of the Edit menu.
• When you drag a rectangle with the Zoom tool, the result
depends on the “Zoom Tool Standard Mode: Horizontal
Zooming Only” option in the Preferences dialog (Editing–
Tools page).
If this is activated, the window will only be zoomed horizontally; if not, the
window will be zoomed both horizontally and vertically.