Selecting MIDI Notes

MIDI notes must be selected before they can be edited.

To select MIDI notes, do one of the following:

With the Pencil tool or any Grabber tool, Shift-click each note.

With any Grabber tool, move the cursor to where there are no notes (the Marquee appears) and click and draw a rectangle around the group of notes you want to edit.

 

Selecting notes with a Grabber tool

When using a Grabber tool, if any portion of the rectangle touches a note (either its start or end point), the note is included in the selection. However, selections made with a Grabber tool are object selections and do not include underlying controller and automation data for the MIDI track.

With the Selector tool, drag across a range of notes.

 

Selecting notes with the Selector tool

When using the Selector tool, a note’s start point must be included in order for it to be selected. When a MIDI or Instrument track is in Notes or Clips view, selections made with the Selector tool are range selections and include all underlying controller and automation data.

With the Selector tool, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac) to get the Note Selector tool in the Edit window and MIDI Editor windows (the Selector tool always make note selections in the Score Editor). The Note Selector tool selects all MIDI notes within the duration of the selection as objects and does not select any other MIDI events (such as controller data or program changes).

To deselect one or more notes from a selection:

With the Pencil tool or any Grabber tool, Shift-click the notes so they become deselected.

You can also select notes in the Select/Split Notes window. See Select/Split Notes Command.