A Sequence is built up with "events".
The most known type of event is a Note. A note plays a sound on the Target. Another event type is Pitch Bend, which changes the pitch while the note is playing.
The Sequence Editor consists of 2 sub editors: the Note Editor where you can draw and edit the note events, and the Value 2 Editor below the Note Editor, where you can edit note velocities and controller curves.
There is a small horizontal splitter bar between the two that you can drag up and down, so to lay them out as you whish.
Clicking at the left of the Value 2 Editor (see Questions & Answers for why it's called like this) pops up a list with all possible event values that can be edited, so you can choose the one that you want to edit.
When you move the mouse over a note, and you have the arrow or pencil tool selected, the mouse tool has this dynamic behaviour:
- At the beginning of the note, you get the pencil tool to change the start position
- In the middle of the note, you get the arrow tool to move the note
- At the end of the note, you get the pencil tool to change the end of the note
The Pencil tool has a wide range of functionality:
- New selection: hold shift, doubleclick and drag
- Selection None: hold shift and doubleclick
- Extend selection: hold shift, click and drag
- Draw new note: click+drag in background
- Change start or length: click+drag when pencil hovers start/end
- Move: click with arrow in middle of part and drag around
- Copy: same as move but hold control
- Delete note: hold alt while pencil hovers start/end
- Monitor event/key: hold alt while clicking (not when pencil hovers start/end <-> delete event)
Detail Info:
- Double-clicking a part opens its editor
- You can use the TAB key to switch between Composer and Sequence Editor
- You can use the Escape and Return keys to go back to the Composer
- Pressing S toggles the Auto Scroll function
- Pressing T or clicking the middle mouse button let you quickly change the mouse tool
- You can use the mouse wheel to scroll / zoom (hold Control (Osx: Command)) horizontally.
- You can right-click the time bar to set the loop point.
- Hold Shift while lasso-selecting to extent your selection.
- Alt-Arrow previews a note.
- Alt-Pencil on the background grid also previews that note.
- Alt-Pencil on a note deletes that note.
- A left-click on the piano keyboard plays that note.
- A right-click on the piano keyboard pops up a context menu containing functions like "Select All These Notes".
- A lot of operations can be done on multiple notes at once. Just select the notes you want to include in the operation.
- Control-A selects all notes.
- Control-X/C/V = Cut/Copy/Paste.
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