MIDI Clips: Note Editor

The Note Editor opens when you double-click a MIDI Clip on the Arrangement Timeline. It displays the contents of the clip as a piano roll and provides tools for drawing, editing, and arranging MIDI notes.

A MIDI Clip can be created in three ways: by dragging one from the Sound Library, by double-clicking an empty space on the Arrangement Timeline to create a blank clip, or by recording notes live via an external MIDI controller or the Virtual Keyboard.

• Piano Roll. The central grid of the Note Editor. The vertical axis represents pitch, mapped to the piano keyboard displayed on the left. The horizontal axis represents time. Notes are drawn, moved, and resized directly in this grid.

• Quantization Grid Panel. Located in the left sidebar of the Note Editor.

  • Note Division: A dropdown menu that sets the rhythmic resolution of the grid lines. Available options include standard divisions (1/1 down to 1/32), triplet subdivisions (1/4 T, 1/8 T, 1/16 T, 1/32 T), polyrhythmic ratios (5:4 and 7:8 variants), and swing percentages (1/8 and 1/16 at 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100% sw). 
  • Quantize: Snaps the start positions of all selected notes to the nearest grid line as defined by the current Note Division setting. 

• Chord Creator (toggle). A panel across the top of the Note Editor for generating and inserting chord progressions into a MIDI Clip.

  

  • Key: Sets the root note of the harmonic context (e.g., C, F#).
  • Scale: Sets the musical scale (e.g., Major, Minor).
  • Diatonic Chords (top row): Displays the seven base triads generated by the selected Key and Scale.
  • Chord Variations (bottom row): Displays alternative qualities and extensions of the currently selected diatonic chord, such as suspended chords, 7ths, 9ths, diminished, and augmented variants.
  • Progression: Loads a pre-configured chord sequence. Set to Custom to build a sequence manually.
  • Rhythm: Sets the rhythmic pattern used when inserting chords. Options include standard note durations (e.g., 1/16, 1/8, Whole Notes) and preset rhythmic patterns (e.g., Every Offbeat, On Chord Change, Arcade).
  • Spacing: A slider that adjusts the length of the inserted chord notes.

• Velocity Panel. When active, each note is represented by a vertical bar. The height of the bar corresponds to the note's velocity, which controls how hard the note is struck. Higher velocity generally produces a louder or brighter sound, though the exact result depends on the instrument loaded on the track. Drag a bar up or down to adjust the velocity of individual notes.