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However, if you have selected the “Linked to Quantize” option on the 
Length Quantize pop-up menu, the function will resize the note ac-
cording to the quantize grid, taking the Swing, Tuplet and Magnetic 
Area settings into account. An example:
1. Length Quantize set to “Linked to Quantize”.
2. Some notes, all a 1/16th note of length.
3. Here, the quantize value has been set to straight 1/16th notes with Swing at 
100%. Since Snap is activated (see page...

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Quantize Ends
The Quantize Ends function on the Advanced Quantize submenu will 
only affect the end positions of notes. Apart from that, it works just like 
regular quantizing, taking the Quantize pop-up menu setting into ac-
count.
Undo and Freeze Quantize
As mentioned above, the original position of each quantized note is 
stored. Therefore, you can make the selected MIDI notes revert to 
their original, unquantized state at any time, by selecting Undo...

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Other MIDI menu functions
The Transpose item and the items on the Functions submenu contain 
the following functions:
Transpose 
Opens a dialog with settings for transposing the selected notes:
Semitones
This is where you set the amount of transposition.
Keep Notes in Range
When this checkbox is activated, transposed notes will remain within 
the Upper and Lower Barrier values.
•If a note ends up outside the barriers after transposition, it will be shifted...

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Legato
Extends each selected note so that it reaches the next note. You can 
specify the desired gap or overlap with the “Legato Overlap” setting in 
the Preferences dialog (MIDI–Function Parameters page).
When using Legato with this setting, each note will be extended to end 5 ticks 
before the next note.
Fixed Lengths
❐This function is only available from within the MIDI editors.
This function resizes all selected notes to the length set with the 
Length...

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Delete Notes
Allows you to delete very short or weak notes. This is useful for auto-
matically removing unwanted “ghost notes” after recording. Selecting 
“Delete Notes...” opens a dialog in which you set up the criteria for the 
function:
The parameters have the following functionality:
Minimum Length
When the Minimum Length checkbox is activated, the note length is 
taken into account, allowing you to remove short notes. You can either 
specify the...

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Remove when under
This setting is only available when both Minimum Length and Minimum 
Velocity is activated. By clicking the value display, you select whether 
both length and velocity criteria must be met for notes to be deleted, or 
whether one of the criteria will suffice.
OK and Cancel
Clicking OK performs the automatic delete according to the rules set 
up. Clicking Cancel closes the dialog without deleting notes.
Restrict Polyphony
Selecting this...

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Velocity
This function opens a dialog that allows you to manipulate the velocity 
of notes in various ways.
To apply the function, select one of the three processing types from 
the Type pop-up, adjust the settings and click OK (to close the dialog 
without applying, click Cancel).
The following types of velocity processing are available:
Add/Subtract
This simply adds a fixed number to the existing velocity values. You 
set the value (positive or negative)...

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Limit
This function allows you to make sure that no velocity values fall outside 
a given range (the Lower and Upper values). Any velocity values out-
side this range are raised/lowered to exactly the Lower/Upper values.
Fixed Velocity
This function sets the velocity of all selected notes to the Insert Veloc-
ity value on the toolbar in the MIDI editors.
Reverse
This function inverts the order of the selected events (or of all events 
in the selected...

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Dissolving parts into separate channels
Setting a track to MIDI channel “Any” will cause each MIDI event to 
play back on its original MIDI channel, rather than a channel set for the 
whole track. There are two main situations when “Any” channel tracks 
are useful:
•When you record several MIDI channels at the same time.
You may for example have a MIDI keyboard with several keyboard zones, where each 
zone sends MIDI on a separate channel. Recording on an...

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An example:
Dissolving parts into separate pitches
The Dissolve Part function can also scan MIDI parts for events of dif-
ferent pitch, and distribute the events into new parts on new tracks, 
one for each pitch. This is useful when the different pitches are not 
used in a regular melodic context, but rather for separating different 
sounds (e.g. MIDI drum tracks or sampler sound FX tracks). By dis-
solving such parts, you can work with each sound...