Editing MIDI Tracks

The Edit Button shows/hides the track's editor. The Editor shows a graphical representation of the MIDI events. A part of it can be selected using the mouse (press left button and drag). The MIDI events can be shown in four different ways (use the small buttons on the right):

  • Wave: Shows the MIDI events like an audio signal.
  • Pianoroll
  • Notation
  • Drum


MIDI Track with Editor

At the bottom of the editor the common editor buttons appear (see Common Editor Features). There's one additional button:

  • Contr: Shows the Controller Editor.

Unlike Audio Edits, MIDI Edits are not written to disk immediately. When a Track is closed (this also happens when the Song is closed) , a window appears asking whether to save the changes or not. If you want to save the changes explicitly you can use the File Options Menu's Save option.

Pro Plus edition only: MIDI tracks have built-in scrubbing features similar to Audio tracks. The MIDI scrubbers don't change the pitch of the signal.

MIDI Edit Control

The MIDI Edit Control, invoked by clicking the Edit button, can be used to manipulate the selected part in various ways.


MIDI Edit Control window

MIDI Edit Controls have the following features:

  • Volume Fader: Changes the volume of the selected part.
  • Fade In: Performs a fade in on the selected part.
  • Fade Out: Performs a fade out on the selected part.
  • Dynamics: Compress (0..100%) or expand (100..400%) the dynamic range of the notes.
  • Quantize: Notes that are not exactly on a 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32 note position (use the Note button) are moved towards the exact positions. Quantizing to triplets (1/4, 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32) is possible as well. The amount of correction can be from 5% up to 100% ('hard quantizing'). Note lengths are corrected as well.
  • Humanize: Shifts note events a (small) random amount of time, and changes the note volumes slightly.
  • Transpose: Transpose all notes in the selected part by a number of semitones.
  • Remove: Removes notes in a certain note range
  • Legato: Note-lengths are adjusted to make note-to-note transitions smoother. Can be used to make 'smooth' instruments like violins sound more natural.