Selecting notes

There are several ways to select notes in the Piano Roll view and Inline Piano Roll view:

Click and drag in the Piano Roll view’s Time Ruler to select notes (and other MIDI events) that start playing within the time range that you select.

In the Inline Piano Roll view, click and drag in the Track view’s Time Ruler to select notes (and other MIDI events) that start playing within the time range that you select. This selects data in the current track, or all selected tracks.

With the Smart tool , click notes, or drag around them with the right mouse button.

With the Select tool , click notes, or drag around them.

In the Piano Roll view only (not the Inline Piano Roll view): click or drag the piano keys to the left of the Notes pane or the drum map rows in Note Map pane to select all notes of the desired pitch(es).

In the Inline Piano Roll view: SHIFT-click or SHIFT-drag the piano keys on the MIDI Scale to select all notes of the desired pitch(es).

To select notes with the Select tool

1.	Select the Select tool in the Control Bar.

2.	Select notes as shown in the table:

Table 99.  

To do this	Do this
Select a single note	Click on the note
Select several notes at once	Drag a rectangle around the notes you want to select
Add to the selection	Hold the SHIFT key while selecting notes
Toggle the selection	Hold the CTRL key while selecting notes
Select notes in a certain time range.	Set the desired Snap to Grid value in the Snap to Grid dialog box, and drag in the Time Ruler.

Selected notes are highlighted (50% gray mask).

To select all notes of certain pitches (Piano Roll view only)

Click the piano keys on the left side of the Notes pane or the drum map rows in the Note Map pane as shown in the table:

Table 100.  

To do this	Do this
Select all notes of a single pitch	Click on the piano key or drum map row
Select all notes of several pitches	Drag across the keys or drum map rows
Add to the selection	Hold the SHIFT key while clicking on a piano key or drum map row
Toggle the selection	Hold the CTRL key while clicking on a piano key or drum map row

To select all notes of certain pitches (Inline Piano Roll view only)

1.	Zoom the MIDI Scale in far enough to see the keys clearly (left-click and drag on the MIDI Scale).

2.	SHIFT-click a piano key to select all the notes of that pitch, or SHIFT-drag through multiple notes to select them.

CTRL-clicking to select multiple non-adjacent notes is not possible in the MIDI Scale.

See:

Editing notes with the global tools

Adding and editing controllers in the Piano Roll