Manually Inserting MIDI Notes

Using the Pencil tool, you can manually insert MIDI notes to any pencil-enabled track shown in the Notes pane. If only one track is viewed in the MIDI Editor window, that track will automatically be pencil-enabled. If multiple superimposed tracks are shown in the Notes pane, MIDI notes will be inserted on the pencil enabled tracks only.

For more information on manually inserting MIDI notes, see Inserting MIDI Notes.

To insert MIDI notes on a specific track in the Notes pane:

1 Do one of the following:

Select the track you want pencil-enabled from the Track Edit selector in the Toolbar.

 

Selecting a track for editing

Only tracks that are currently shown in the MIDI Editor window are available in the Track Edit selector pop-up menu.

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Click the Pencil column in the Track List to pencil-enable the track you want.

 

“Blad Pad Midi” track pencil-enabled

2 With the Pencil tool, click at a time and pitch location to insert a MIDI note on the pencil-enabled track with the default Note On velocity and the selected Default Note Duration.

 

Inserting a MIDI note on track “Inst 3”

To pencil-enable multiple contiguous tracks, Shift-click in the Pencil column of the range of tracks you want. To pencil-enable multiple discontiguous tracks, Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac) in the Pencil column of any additional tracks. Alt-click (windows) or Option-click (Mac) to pencil-enable all tracks. Manually inserted notes are written to all pencil-enabled tracks.