M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 454)

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Using the Edit tools, notes can be inserted, de-
leted, transposed, trimmed, and moved. For
more information, see “Manually Editing MIDI
Notes” on page 582.
Nondestructive MIDI Editing
While editing audio regions is usually nonde-
structive, this is generally not the case for MIDI
regions. For instance, if a MIDI region resides in
just one track at a single location, editing for
that region is destructive. This means that alter-
ing the pitch, duration, or placement of notes in
Notes view permanently alters the region.
However, if the Mirror MIDI Editing option is dis-
abled, when editing a MIDI region that appears
elsewhere in the session (either on the same
track at another location or in a different playl-
ist, or in another track), editing is nondestruc-
tive and creates a new auto-created region. To go
back to the previous material, drag the original
region from the Region List, or return to a previ-
ously saved playlist.
Naming Regions
You can rename regions to give them more de-
scriptive names, or to simplify existing names.
When renaming a region that was auto-created
during editing, the region becomes a user-de-
fined region and is displayed in the Region List
even when auto-created regions are hidden.
To rename a region on a track:
1 Do one of the following:
• Select the region you want to rename and
then choose Region > Rename.
• With any of the Edit tools, Right-click the
the region that you want to rename and se-
lect Rename from the pop-up menu.
• Press Control+Shift+R (Windows) or Com-
mand+Shift+R (Mac).
• With the Grabber tool, double-click the re-
gion you want to rename. For MIDI re-
gions, the Name Dialog option must be
selected as the Double-Clicking a MIDI Region
Opens
setting in the MIDI Preferences.
2 In the Name dialog, type a new name for the
region. If a whole-file audio region was selected,
specify whether to rename just the region, or
both the region and the disk file.
3 Click OK to rename the region.
If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you
can use it to scroll a MIDI or Instrument
track’s Notes display. Place the mouse over
a MIDI or Instrument track in the Edit win-
dow, and Control-Alt-Start-scroll (Win-
dows) or Command-Option-Control-scroll
(Mac) the scroll wheel to scroll the Notes
display for that track.
One way to safely return to a track’s previ-
ous state is with playlists. Before you edit
notes, trim regions, or rearrange the order of
regions, make a duplicate of the track’s ex-
isting playlist and then edit the duplicate
(see “Playlists” on page 529).
To apply edits to all instances of a MIDI re-
gion, enable Mirrored MIDI Editing mode
(see “Mirrored MIDI Editing” on page 577).
For details on renaming regions, see “Re-
naming Regions” on page 219.
Name dialog