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• For SysEx (system exclusive) events, you can only edit the position 
(Start) in the list.
However, clicking the Comment column opens the SysEx Editor, in which you can per-
form detailed editing of system exclusive events. This and other aspects of working 
with system exclusive messages are described in a separate chapter – see page 446.
Editing in the event display
The event display allows you to edit the events graphically using the 
tools on the toolbar.
•To move an event, click and drag it to a new position.
Note that moving the event past any other event in the display will re-sort the list (the 
list always shows the events in the order they are played back). As a result, the vertical 
position of the event in the display will change as well.
•To make a copy of an event, press [Alt]/[Option] and drag it to a new 
position.
•To resize a note, select it and drag its end points with the Arrow tool 
as in the Project window.
This only works with notes.
•To mute or unmute an event, click on it with the Mute tool.
You can mute or unmute several events in one go by enclosing them in a selection 
rectangle with the Mute tool.
Data 1 This is the “data 1” or “value 1” property of the event. The content of this 
depends on the event type – for notes, this is the pitch, for example. 
Where applicable, the values are shown in the most relevant form. For in-
stance, the Data 1 value for notes is shown as a note number in the format 
selected in the Preferences dialog (Event Display–MIDI page). See also 
the table on page 384.
Data 2 This is the “data 2” or “value 2” property of the event. The content of this 
depends on the event type – for notes, this is the velocity value, for exam-
ple. See the table on page 384.
Channel The MIDI channel of the event. Note that this setting is normally overrid-
den by the channel setting for the track. To make a MIDI event play back 
on “its own” channel, set its track to channel “Any” in the Project window.
Comment This column is used for some event types only, providing an additional 
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•You can select a color scheme for the events with the Colors pop-up 
menu on the toolbar.
This works as in the other MIDI editors.
•To delete an event, select it and press [Backspace] or [Delete], or 
click on it with the Eraser tool in the event display.
Filtering
Clicking the F button on the toolbar makes an additional filter bar ap-
pear. This allows you to hide some event types from view. For example, 
it may be hard to find note events if the part contains a lot of controller 
events – by hiding these the list becomes more manageable.
To hide an event type, tick its checkbox on the filter bar. 
• The event types remain hidden even if you close the filter bar.
To make sure you see all events, open the filter bar and check that all checkboxes are 
deactivated.
• The filter bar does not remove, mute or in any other way change the 
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Masking
The Mask function is similar to the filter bar but allows you to hide 
events based on some other criteria as well. Proceed as follows:
1.Select an event of the type you want to view.
2.Pull down the Mask pop-up menu on the toolbar and select one of the 
options.
The results are as follows:
•To deactivate the Mask function, select “Nothing” from the Mask pop-
up menu.
The most typical usage of the Mask function is to view a certain type 
of controller only (e.g. Modulation, Breath Control, etc.). Since these 
are all the same event types (controller), this would not be possible 
with the filter bar. With the “Controllers and Event Types” option on 
the Mask pop-up menu, it is!
Option Description
Event Types Only events with the type of the selected event will be shown. 
This does the same as the filter bar but is quicker if you only want 
to view a single event type.
Controller and 
Event TypesOnly events with the type of the selected event will be shown. 
Furthermore, if the selected event is a controller, only controllers 
of the same type (with the same “Data 1” value) will be shown.
Event Channels Only events with the same channel as the selected event will be 
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Editing in the value display
The value display to the right of the event display is a tool for quick 
viewing and editing of multiple values, e.g. velocities or controller 
amounts. The values are shown as horizontal bars, with the bar length 
corresponding to the value.
A velocity ramp in the value display.
You edit the values by clicking and dragging. Note that the pointer au-
tomatically takes on the shape of the Pencil tool when you move it into 
the value display – you don’t have to select the Pencil tool for this.
Exactly which value is shown for an event depends on the event type. 
The following table shows what is displayed and edited in the Data 
columns and the value display:
Event type Data 1 Data 2 Value display
Note Pitch (note number) Velocity Velocity
Controller Controller type Controller amount Controller amount
Program Change Program number Not used Program number
Aftertouch Aftertouch amount Not used Aftertouch amount
Pitch Bend Bend amount Not used Bend amount
SysEx Not used Not used Not used 
						

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The Score Editor – Overview
The Score Editor shows the MIDI notes as a musical score. The win-
dow contains the following sections and items:
The toolbar
The Score Editor toolbar is similar to the toolbar in the Key Editor, with 
the addition of a button for showing or hiding the extended toolbar 
(see below).
Info line on/off Edit Solo button Score Editor tools
AutoScroll on/offMouse pointer display: Current 
pitch and current meter position
Show/hide extended toolbar
Quantize valueLength (note value) setting
Edit via MIDI input on/offAudition on/off
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The info line
The info line shows information about selected MIDI notes, just like in 
the Key Editor. You can edit all values on the info line using regular 
value editing (see page 366 for details).
•To hide or show the info line, click the “i” icon in the toolbar.
The extended toolbar
The extended toolbar (shown or hidden by clicking the T button on the 
main toolbar) contains the following items:
Note value buttons
Click one of these to select a note value for input. The “T” and “.” op-
tions are for triplet and dotted note values. You can also press [Ctrl]/
[Command] and click one of the note value buttons – this will resize 
all selected notes to the note value you choose.
Enharmonic shift
Allows you to manually select whether a note should be shown with 
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The score display
The main area of the Score Editor window shows the notes in the ed-
ited parts on one or several staves. 
• If you are editing one or several parts on the same track, as much of them as 
possible is shown on several staves – one above the other – just as with a 
score on paper.
• If you are editing parts on several tracks, they are put on a grand staff (multiple 
staves, tied together by bar lines).
• The number of measures across the screen depends on the size of the win-
dow and the number of notes in each measure.
The maximum number of bars across the page is four.
• The end of the last part is indicated by a double bar line.
• Unlike the other MIDI editors, the Score Editor does not have a ruler.
A conventional ruler would not make sense, since there is no exact relationship be-
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Score Editor operations
Opening the Score Editor
To open one or several parts in the Score editor you proceed much as 
with the other editors: select the parts (on the same or different tracks), 
and select “Open Score Editor” from the Scores submenu on the MIDI 
menu. The default key command for this is [Ctrl]/[Command]-[R].
•You can also select the Score editor as your default editor, allowing 
you to open it by double clicking parts.
This is done with the Default Edit Action pop-up menu in the Preferences dialog (event 
Display - MIDI page).
About editing parts on different tracks
If you have selected parts on two or more tracks and open the Score 
editor, you will get one staff for each track (although you can split a 
staff in two, e.g. when scoring for piano). The staves are tied together 
by bar lines and placed in the order of the tracks in the Project window.
•If you need to rearrange the staves: close the editor, go back into the 
Project window, drag the tracks to the order you want them, and open 
the Score Editor again.
The Active Staff
Just as in the other editors, all MIDI input (as when recording from 
your instrument) is directed to one of the tracks, here called the Active 
staff. The Active staff is indicated by a black rectangle in the left part 
of the first visible bar.
To change Active staff, click in the staff you want to activate.
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Getting the score displayed correctly
When you open the Score Editor for a part recorded in real time, the 
score may not look as legible as you would first expect. The Score Ed-
itor can ignore the minor time variances in performance and make a 
neater score almost instantly. To achieve this, there are a number of 
Staff Settings that determine how the program displays the music.
• Note that the time signature follows the time signature(s) on the Tempo 
track and are common to all tracks/staves in the score.
There are two ways to open the Staff Settings dialog:
•Double click in the white area to the left of the staff.
•Activate a staff by clicking in it, and select “Staff Settings” from the 
Scores submenu on the MIDI menu.
The Staff Settings dialog appears.
❐The settings you make in this dialog are independent for each staff (track), 
but common for a piano staff which you have created by choosing the 
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Staff Mode
This pop-up determines how the staff should be shown: 
•When set to “Single”, all notes in the part are shown in the same staff.
•When set to “Split”, the part is split on the screen into a bass and tre-
ble clef, as in a piano score. 
You use the Splitpoint value field to set the note where you want the split to occur. 
Notes above and including the split note will appear on the upper staff, and notes be-
low the split note will appear on the lower staff.
Before and after setting a split at C3.
Display Quantize
Notes are not an absolute language, and you must give the program a 
few hints on how the score should be displayed. This is done using 
the Display Quantize section of the Staff Settings dialog.