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The MIDI editors
• When you select “Select Controllers in Note Range” on
the Select submenu of the Edit menu, the controllers within
the note range (i.
e. between the first/leftmost and last/right-
most note) will be selected.
Please note that for this to work, only two notes have to be 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
methods:
• 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 259.
• 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. Note that pressing [Shift] and using the up and
down arrow keys will transpose notes in steps of one octave.
Ö You can also use the Transpose function on the MIDI
menu (see “Transpose” on page 245).
• 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 264.
• 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. How
to show/hide toolbar items is described in the section
“Using the Setup
options” on page 336.
Ö When you move selected notes to a different position,
any selected controllers for these notes will move accord
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ingly. For further information, see also “Moving events” on
page 269.
Ö You can also adjust the position of notes by quantizing
(see “Quantizing MIDI and audio” on page 89).
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 259).
• 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”, main-
taining 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.
• You can also perform the Repeat function by dragging:
Select the notes 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 indicated
by the tooltip).
Using cut and paste
You can use the Cut, Copy and Paste options on the Edit
menu to move or copy material within a part or between
different parts. When you paste copied notes, you can ei
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ther use the regular Paste function or the function “Paste
Time” from the Range submenu of the Edit menu.
• “Paste” inserts the copied notes at the project cursor
position without affecting existing notes.
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You can restrict movement to horizontal or vertical by
holding down [Ctrl]/[Command] while dragging.