Author Vishal Ramakrishnan, Global peace song of the year award winning and music producer. He is also a music production trainer. For more details, visit www. vishaladitya. com
• Move MIDI notes 1. Moving the notes up and down:
• Destructive cutting and Pasting( Control- Command-X)
Highlight one MIDI note you want to move by pressing the OPTIONS key and use the arrow keys UP and DOWN to move the notes.
2. Moving the notes left and right:
This feature is also known as shuffle mode edit on pro tools. This is a handy shortcut for editing. For example you have a song and you don’ t want the regions between bar 12 and bar 14 and you want to join bar 15 to bar 12 and remove the 2 bars, you create a loop cycle between bar 12 and bar 14 and press CONTROL-COMMAND-X and all the regions between those 2 bars will be deleted and whatever was there from bar 15 earlier gets to bar 12 now. This is handy when you are editing huge session and when you are looking to delete things forever.
• Creating Space between regions( Control- Command-Z)
RIGHT CLICK on one MIDI note and look for the“ Set Nudge Value To” on the menu list and select how much you want it to nudge, like for example 1 / 4th or 1 / 8th. Once you selected the nudge value, hold OPTION keys and use the arrow keys LEFT AND RIGHT to move the MIDI regions by the value given.
• Automation( Control-Command-A and A for the automation tab)
CONTROL-COMMAND-A, doesn’ t it look‘ A’ shape on the keyboard? Yes, that ' s how you trigger the automation. It changes from reading automation that has already been recorded to the Latch mode.
Now start your playback and whatever effect or synth knob or fader or volume levels you adjust, it all records in automation and you get every effect you need. Now stop playback and hit the A key on the keyboard to open your automation on the track and you will find all the parameters you have automated. Now you can do the automation manually by drawing them or leave it as it is if you are satisfied with how you moved the knobs while doing the playback.
Just like how we delete unwanted regions with Control- Command-X, we use CONTROL-COMMAND-Z to create space between regions. For example, you want to extend your BGM by another 4 bars, but you have already finished arranging the track, now place the cursor at the end of the chorus portion and hit CONTROL-COMMAND-Z and you create addition 2 bars for space for repeating the chorus or to add a new tune. Every time you do this, you keep getting more additional space and the rest of the song moves to the point right after space.
• Bringing all MIDI velocities to the same level
This is really useful if you are looking for a tight robotic sound. Once you record your MIDI, press OPTION and move the velocity bar left and right, you will find all notes fixing to the same velocity even though it was recorded at different levels.
Author Vishal Ramakrishnan, Global peace song of the year award winning and music producer. He is also a music production trainer. For more details, visit www. vishaladitya. com
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