The Key Editor

Overview

The Key Editor is used to edit the Note Events in a Sequence.

It displays those Events as a "piano roll".

How it works :

Mouse Tools

   Arrow
With the Arrow you can select notes.

By holding [Shift] you can expand your selection : unselected Note Events are selected and vice versa.

When you click in the free space, all Events are unselected.

When you click on a Note Event, you can move the Note Event(s) to where you want.

When holding [Alternate], you are not moving but copying.

   Pencil
With the (Pencil) you can draw new Note Events when clicking in the free space.

When clicking on a existing Note Event, you can lengthen Note Events.
Lengthening works also on the Current Grid.

When you click on the beginning of a Note Event, you can change its start-point.

By holding [Shift], you can lasso-select Note Events.

   Finger Hand
The Finger Hand allows editing of the velocity of Note Events.

By holding [Shift], you can even edit the Note-Off velocity.

In that case, be sure to enable the "Transmit Real Note-Off's" parameter in the Technical Preferences.
Otherwise the Note-Off velocities are ignored.

   Gum
The Gum is used to delete Note Events.
You can also lasso more than 1 Event at a time of course !
   Magnifying Glass
The Magnifying Glass is used for zooming in a certain portion of the editor window.

Remember that it is very easy to return to an overview situation by clicking the zoom button at the crosspoint of the scrollbars.
(cfr About Sequence Editing)

When holding [Alternate], the Magnifying Glass is monitoring an Event !

   Global Cutter
The Global Cutter is used to delete a section out of the Sequence.
   Global Inserter
The Global Inserter is used to insert a section into the Sequence.

Options

Step Replacer :

This allows you to replace the Note Events by the Notes you play on your MIDI instrument.

It's a bit like the Sequence menu:Key Replacer, but this works with single Notes, while the 'Key Replacer' works with groups of Notes.

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