Selecting groups of notes

Drag with the Selection tool to draw selection boxes around the notes you want to include. The Selection tool can draw three types of selection boxes:

Free selection

The default behavior of the tool. Click to select individual notes (hold Shift or Ctrl

 

to select multiple notes). Drag to draw a rectangular region that begins where

 

you start drawing and ends where you release the mouse button. All notes

 

inside the region will be selected. This method is good for selecting a group of

 

notes that are close together.

 

 

Vertical

Can be used to easily select all notes that occur within a time range. The vertical

 

selection box automatically selects all of the notes between your first mouse

 

click and where you draw the selection box; even notes that are not visible at the

 

current magnification are selected.

 

 

Horizontal

Can be used to easily select all notes on a single or multiple adjacent rows. The

 

horizontal selection box automatically selects all notes on a row that is touched

 

by the selection box; even notes that are not visible at the current magnification

 

are selected.

To change the type of selection box you are using, right-click the mouse while holding down the left mouse button. Clicking the right mouse button will toggle through the three types of selection boxes.

Adding or deleting notes

1.Click the Enable Inline MIDI Editing button .

2.Use the scroll buttons at the left edge of the track to navigate the piano roll/drum grid:

Tip: Drag the bottom border of the track header to increase the height of the track.

3.Select an editing tool.

Tool

Icon

Description

Draw

 

Allows you to insert, edit, select, and move notes.

 

 

In drum-grid mode, the Draw and Paint tools both draw fixed-length note events.

 

 

 

Paint

 

Allows you to insert notes of a specific length.

 

 

The Paint tool is different from the Draw tool in that it can cross note row boundaries. Use the Paint tool to add a

 

 

random element to your ACID projects.

 

 

Note: In drum-grid mode, the Draw and Paint tools both draw fixed-length note events.

Using the Paint tool:

•Click the down arrow next to the Paint tool button and choose a note length from the menu.

•Click the Paint tool button to select the tool. The Paint tool is selected, and notes will be painted using the selected note length.

 

Note: Right-click with the Paint tool to erase notes.

Erase

Allows you to remove existing notes.

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