Selecting Notes in a Chord

Another use for Select/Split Notes is to select only the upper or lower notes in a chord. Many times you may only want to affect the upper or lower notes in a chord—for example, to increase velocities or transpose pitches.

To select only the bass notes in a chord:

1 Do one of the following:

With the Grabber or Selector tool, select the range of MIDI notes that contains the notes.

– or – 

To affect all the MIDI notes on a track, click in the track with the Selector tool, so that it contains a flashing edit cursor.

2 Choose Event > Event Operations > Select/Split Notes.

3 Select the Bottom option and leave the number of notes set to 1.

4 Click Apply.

In order for notes to be considered a chord, their start times must be within thirty-two ppq ticks of each other.