![]() ![]() You can quickly enter a sequence of notes or chords without having to perform them live or enter them with a mouse. The cursor then jumps to the next ‘step’, and when you press another note, that gets entered at the new position. Step sequencing is when you press a note on your MIDI keyboard and it appears at the Song Position Cursor. Studio One can step‑sequence right from within the Piano Roll. But there’s a lot more you can do with selected notes, which we’ll come onto in a minute. You can also drag selection boxes around bunches of notes, move or delete them, or copy and paste them as in any piece of software. But you can get by with the main tool selected, and you’ll discover that if you hold Ctrl/Command it dynamically becomes the Pen or Eraser tool. Some tools make these tasks very slightly easier, like the Pen tool, which means you only have to click once to add a note, or the Eraser tool, which does the opposite. To delete a note simply double‑click it again. You can also drag the start and end of a note to change its duration. To change a note’s position, you can click and drag it wherever you like. Or, if you hold the Ctrl/Command and Alt/Option keys together, you can edit the note’s velocity directly by clicking and moving the mouse. If you forget to slide in the velocity when you enter a note, or want to change it later, you can use the automation lane to set the level of the note’s velocity ‘stalk’. You can enable the Velocity Bar to see it from the drop‑down box, and you most definitely should. You’ll see Note Colour if you look along the toolbar. Velocity can also be shown within the note block itself. If these are not visible, hit the tiny squiggly line icon beneath the vertical keyboard. Velocity is shown in the automation lanes at the bottom of the editor. If you double‑click to add a note but hold the mouse button down on the second click, you can control the note length by moving the mouse right and left, and the note’s velocity by dragging up and down. These two things can be dealt with on the second click. The placement and size are usually adjustable with reference to the Quantize settings and the size of the grid.Īs you add more notes, you’ll notice they are all the same size and velocity. The placement, colour, size and velocity of the note are all things we can change. To enter a note, simply double‑click anywhere in the grid, and the note will appear. ![]() Let’s open a fresh MIDI Event that you’ve created in the Editor, on a track that’s running your favourite VST Instrument. ![]() Alternatively, if you are editing within a looped section, the keyboard shortcut Shift+L will bring the loop back into focus. If you ever get lost, you can always reselect the clip you want to edit in the Arrange window, and it will pop up on the editor. Holding Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac) and moving the wheel zooms vertically, contracting and expanding the keyboard, whereas if you add Shift then scrolling will zoom horizontally in the timeline. The wheel will scroll the piano vertically or, if you hold the Shift key, horizontally along the timeline. Using your mouse wheel and a few keys, you can easily navigate your way around the notes and bars that you’ll be editing. You can detach it and drag it onto another screen, or make it full‑screen for your undivided attention. You can resize the Piano Roll to take up as much or as little of the screen real estate as you wish. Events let you keep sections of music together and that’s where we must start. You can do so in the Arrangement timeline by double‑clicking on the track, or you can pick up the pen tool and drag out a space in the Editor. To do this, you must first create an Event clip in which the notes will reside. If you haven’t recorded anything yet, however, the editor will remain decidedly empty regardless of any attempts to mouse‑click notes in there. If you selected a track into which you’ve recorded some MIDI notes, you’d see those notes displayed as little narrow rectangles on a grid. ![]() It presents you with a vertical piano keyboard to represent pitch, and a timeline that reflects the main timeline in the Arrangement window. You can also get there by double‑clicking the bottom half of the MIDI clip or Event you want to edit. When working with MIDI tracks, pressing Studio One’s Edit button will bring up the Piano Roll view. In this month’s workshop, we will be looking at Studio One’s powerful note‑editing functionality, and get crafting compositions with a mouse. We’ve previosuly tackled how to connect your MIDI gear to Studio One, and we’ve got stuck into recording MIDI. We explore Studio One’s MIDI editing facilities. The Step Record feature is a quick and easy way to enter a melody as a regular series of notes. ![]()
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