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Installing a MIDI device
To install a MIDI device, proceed as follows:
1.Click the Install Device button.
A dialog appears listing all pre-configured MIDI devices. For now we as-
sume that your MIDI device is included in this list.
2.Locate and select the device in the list and click OK.
If your MIDI device isn’t included in the list but is com-
patible with the GM (General MIDI) or XG standards, you 
can select the generic GM or XG Device options.
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6.Rename the desired patches in this way, and finish by 
deactivating Enable Edit again (to avoid modifying the de-
vice by accident).
ÖYou can also make more radical changes to the patch 
structure in a device (adding or deleting patches, groups 
or banks), see below.
For example, this would be useful if you expanded your MIDI device by 
adding extra storage media such as RAM cards, etc.
Patch Structure
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 Banks are the main...

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3.Specify a Default Name below the event display.
The added events will get this name, followed by a number. You can re-
name presets manually in the Patch Banks list later.
4.Click OK.
A number of new presets are now added in the selected bank or folder, 
according to your settings.
Other editing functions
 You can move presets between banks and folders by drag-
ging them in the Patch Banks list.
 You can remove a bank, folder or preset by selecting it in the...

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Introduction
This chapter describes the various MIDI processing func-
tions available on the MIDI menu (see highlighted entries 
below). They offer various ways to edit MIDI notes and 
other events, either in the Project window or from within a 
MIDI editor.
MIDI functions vs. MIDI modifiers
There are MIDI functions that have no MIDI modifiers 
counterpart, and vice versa.
In some cases, however, the result of a MIDI function can 
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However, quantizing is not only a method of correcting er-
rors, it can also be used creatively in various ways. For 
example, the “quantize grid” does not have to consist of 
perfectly straight notes, some notes can automatically be 
excluded from quantizing, etc.
ÖWhen quantizing MIDI, only MIDI notes are affected 
(no other event types).
However, you can choose to move the controllers together with their re-
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The Grid and Type pop-ups
These are used to determine the basic note value for the 
quantizing grid. In other words, these have the same func-
tionality as the Quantize pop-up menu on the toolbar.
Swing
The Swing slider is only available when a straight note 
value is selected for the grid and Tuplet is off (see below). 
It lets you offset every second position in the grid, creating 
a swing or shuffle feel. When you adjust the Swing slider, 
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The Non Quantize setting
This is an additional setting that affects the result of the 
quantizing. It allows you to set a “distance” in ticks 
(120ths of sixteenth notes).
Events that already are within the specified distance from 
the quantize grid will not be quantized. This allows you to 
keep slight variations when you quantize, but still correct 
notes that are too far from the grid.
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Advanced Quantize functions
Quantize Lengths
This function (on the Advanced Quantize submenu on the 
MIDI menu) will quantize the length of the notes, without 
changing their start positions. At its most basic level, this 
function will set the length of the notes to the Length 
Quantize value on the MIDI editors’ toolbar. However, if 
you have selected the “Quantize Link” option on the 
Length Quantize pop-up menu, the function will resize the 
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Scale Correction
Scale Correction transposes the selected notes by for-
cing them to the closest note of the selected scale type. 
This can be used for creating interesting key and tonal 
changes, either by itself or in conjunction with the other 
settings in the Transpose dialog.
To activate Scale Correction, click the checkbox.
Select a root note and scale type for the current scale 
from the upper pop-up menus.
Select a root note and scale type for the new scale from...