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02-10-2011, 08:35 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Where is piano roll view?
I've spent two hours trying to get into piano roll view. The pdf says Alt 1, but I'm on a laptop with no num pad. I'm guessing that's why it didn't work. I'm mystified because the pdf says piano roll is the default view. It must be right under my nose, but this is driving me nuts Thanks for any help.
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02-10-2011, 08:39 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Lucas, TX, USA (via Luleå, Sweden)
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Forgive me for asking the obvious, but you do have the MIDI editor open, and that window has active focus, right?
If not, that's the problem. Alt-1 won't open the MIDI editor. It just switches between one of the other views and the Piano Roll view.
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02-10-2011, 08:43 PM
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Human being with feelings
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No. I don't have the midi editor open. That's exactly what I'm trying to do basically. How do you open it please?
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02-10-2011, 08:52 PM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Try Insert->new midi item to insert a midi clip. Then double-click the clip.
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02-10-2011, 08:53 PM
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This should be a very simple and quickly accessible thing. I've loaded up a couple virtual instruments and all I want to do is scribble in a few notes to start experimenting, but I can't get into piano roll view. On my other sequencers it's literally one mouse click right at the top of the screen.
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02-10-2011, 08:54 PM
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cross post. Ok. I'll try that. Thanks.
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02-10-2011, 08:56 PM
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Aah. That did it. Thanks much, qwanta.
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02-10-2011, 08:56 PM
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Human being with feelings
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yeah, in reaper you have to create a MIDI item first.
Basically its the menu insert and midi item at the top.
then you double click on the midi item you made which should appear on the track, and that pops open the piano roll view.
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02-10-2011, 09:18 PM
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Human being with feelings
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As an alternative to the insert menu, you can also hold down the ctrl key and draw new midi clips into the arrangement area of a track.
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02-10-2011, 09:52 PM
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Human being with feelings
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Quote:
Originally Posted by junkfood
As an alternative to the insert menu, you can also hold down the ctrl key and draw new midi clips into the arrangement area of a track.
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Yeah, I learned this here recently. Very cool. Yet I still find myself inserting a midi item first, then double clicking. Talk about a creature of habit!
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02-10-2011, 09:56 PM
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Oh, another cool thing. Double right click on a piano key and you can name it what you want. Love this feature.
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02-10-2011, 10:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Aah. So, we could double right click on, say, C# and rename it . . . C#? Sorry. Couldn't resist.
That Control-draw shortcut is good to know too. Thanks.
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02-11-2011, 07:54 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tunesy
Aah. So, we could double right click on, say, C# and rename it . . . C#? Sorry. Couldn't resist.
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No, no, no. If you play a wrong note, you rename it to what it should have been and it fixes itself. Forget all that midi editor stuff. This is really how it's done.
Same concept in audio files. If you don't like what you played, rename it to, say, "soaring lead riff," or "cool blues bass run." Great for fixing problems here and there.
Yeah, Reaper's pretty cool.
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02-11-2011, 11:01 AM
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Human being with feelings
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Chicago
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mixer
No, no, no. If you play a wrong note, you rename it to what it should have been and it fixes itself. Forget all that midi editor stuff. This is really how it's done.
Same concept in audio files. If you don't like what you played, rename it to, say, "soaring lead riff," or "cool blues bass run." Great for fixing problems here and there.
Yeah, Reaper's pretty cool.
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lol!!
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