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136 Chapter 3 Arrange Window

Using a Finer Grid

All of these operations (moving/copying, lengthening/shortening) snap to the bar or

beat grid,depending on the currentSnap menu setting. There are two ways to override

the grid, allowing finer adjustments. All you need to do is hold these keys during the

particular operation:

• Display Format values as grid scale: Press Control during operation.

• No grid (ticks as grid scale): Press Control-Shift during operation.

Let’s say you want to shorten a Region in a 4/4 bar so that the “4” is played but not the

“4 and” of the last bar.

This can be done by following these steps:

1 Zoom the screen display until you can see quarter notes in the Bar Ruler.

2 Grab the bottom right corner of the Region, and move the mouse to the left, until the

Region is shortened by one quarter note.

3 Press (and hold) Control, and move the mouse carefully to the right, until the Region

has become one division longer. While you’re doing this, the help tag shows the Region

start position, track number, and the current length of the Region in bars, beats,

divisions, and ticks. The three right-hand numbers should be “3 1 0”.

Dividing MIDI Regions

Click on the Scissors (see “The Tools” on page 18) in the Toolbox. Now click-hold on the

desired MIDI Region(s). The help tag shows the current mouse position. When you

release the mouse button, all selected MIDI Regions are cut at the position shown in

the help tag. The grid is based on the Snap menu setting.

If any notes overlap other notes by more than a 1/16 note, the following dialog will

appear on-screen:

Overlapping Notes found! Do you want to keep, to shorten or to split those?

Keep (default) leaves all notes unaltered. The MIDI Region is cut as usual, but when you

do this, you can end up with notes in the left-hand half that are much longer than the

MIDI Region containing them. Such notes will play normally, unless “Clip Length” is set

to On, which cuts off all sustaining notes at the end of a MIDI Region.

Shorten truncates all overlapping notes, so that they end at the point where the MIDI

Region was divided.

Split divides overlapping notes across the two MIDI Regions created when a cut is

made; two notes are created, with the same pitch and velocity as the original, and with

the same total length as the original note.

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