Editing MIDI Notes and Controls

In the image below: Highlighted in green is the Draw (“pencil”) tool, and to the right is the Edit (“points and lines”) tool. These tools are used to edit MIDI notes inside MIDI Regions.

In the image below: 2 MIDI notes have been selected for editing.

*Remember, the Grab and Range tools are used to edit Regions, while Draw and Edit operate on the contents of regions.

Draw tool

Edit Tool

Click anywhere to start dragging a new MIDI note; drag to extend the length of the note Newly-created notes get the average “velocity” of other nearby note velocities Click in the middle of a note to select it ( the note will turn red ). Ctrl+click ( Cmd+click on Mac ) to add/remove notes from the selection Shift+right-click on a MIDI note to delete it Click the left or right edge of the MIDI note to trim the start and end times of the note Click in the middle of a note to drag it Shift+right-click on a MIDI note to delete it Scroll the mouse wheel on a note to increase/decrease the velocity

Shift+right-click on a MIDI note to delete it Click in the middle of a note to select it ( the note will turn red ). Ctrl+click ( Cmd+click on Mac ) to add/remove notes from the selection Click the left or right edge of the MIDI note to trim the start and end times of the note Click in the middle of a note to drag it Scroll the mouse wheel on a note to increase/decrease the velocity Click an empty space in the region to initiate a “box select” rectangle. With multiple notes selected, you can:

Once a note (or multiple notes) is selected (red), you can:

• Click Backspace or Delete key to delete the selected note(s)
• Click the up/down arrows to transpose the note pitch up/down
• Point at the selected note, and use the mouse wheel to adjust all of the selected note velocities
• Right-click on a selected note to open the MIDI context menu
  

MIDI context menu:

• Delete – Requires one or more notes to be selected. Deletes the selected note(s)
• Edit – Operates on a single selected note. Allows changing the length, pitch, velocity, etc.
• Legatize – Operates on a multi-note selection. Extends note ends to meet the next note’s beginning.
• Quantize – Operates on one or more selected notes. Quantizes the note start/ends to a defined grid.
• Remove Overlap – After this operation, each new note onset will cut off any notes that were held on before the new note was struck.
• Transform – Allows transforming the note pitch, velocity, and other parameters using logical operations.
  

*If you want to apply these MIDI operations to all the notes in a region, you can use the Grabber (“G”) tool, and right-click on the region(s). The MIDI submenu allows you to apply these operations to all notes in the selected region(s), without having to select the notes separately.

MIDI Control (CC) Automation

MIDI Controls use the same conventions as automation, except that you can only have MIDI controller automation inside a MIDI region. You can only click to create new control points if there is a MIDI region on the timeline at that location.

MIDI Velocity bars

The note “velocity” may be displayed inside MIDI notes as a “bar”. See the image below:

Velocity is displayed as both a “color” change ( increasingly saturated color with higher velocity ) … and also with a bar indicator inside the note.

This feature can be enabled or disabled in Appearance->Editor->MIDI Regions

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