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Pro Tools Reference Guide 582
Manually Editing MIDI Notes
All aspects of a MIDI note can be edited in the
Edit window or in a MIDI Editor window, in-
cluding start and end points, duration, pitch,
and velocity. The Selector, Grabber, and Pencil
tools can operate on individual notes or groups
of notes.
Selecting MIDI Notes
MIDI notes must be selected before they can be
edited.
To select MIDI notes, do one of the following:
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With the Pencil tool or any Grabber tool,
Shift-click each note.
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With any Grabber tool, move the cursor to
where there are no notes (the Marquee appears)
and click and draw a rectangle around the group
of notes you want to edit.
When using a Grabber tool, if any portion of the
rectangle touches a note (either its start or end
point), the note is included in the selection.
However, selections made with a Grabber tool
are object selections and do not include under-
lying controller and automation data for the
MIDI track.
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With the Selector tool, drag across a range of
notes.
When using the Selector tool, a note’s start
point must be included in order for it to be se-
lected. When a MIDI or Instrument track is in
Notes or Regions view, selections made with the
Selector tool are range selections and include all
underlying controller and automation data.
To deselect one or more notes from a selection:
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With the Pencil tool or any Grabber tool,
Shift-click the notes so they become deselected.
Selecting and Auditioning MIDI Notes with the
Mini-Keyboard
Use the mini-keyboard on MIDI and Instrument
tracks to select and play notes on that track. You
can click on the mini-keyboard with any Edit
tool.
Selecting notes with a Grabber tool
Selecting notes with the Selector tool
With the Selector tool, Alt-click (Windows)
or Option-click (Mac) to get the Note Selector
tool in the Edit window and MIDI Editor
windows (the Selector tool always make note
selections in the Score Editor). The Note
Selector tool selects all MIDI notes within
the duration of the selection as objects and
does not select any other MIDI events (such
as controller data or program changes).
You can also select notes in the Select/Split
Notes window. See “Select/Split Notes” on
page 818.