M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 838)

Pro Tools Reference Guide 820
Selecting Notes in a Chord
Another use for Select/Split Notes is to select
only the upper or lower notes in a chord. Many
times you may only want to affect the upper or
lower notes in a chord—for example, to increase
velocities or transpose pitches.
To select only the bass notes in a chord:
1 Do one of the following:
• With the Grabber or Selector tool, select
the range of MIDI notes that contains the
notes.
– or –
• To affect all the MIDI notes on a track, click
in the track with the Selector tool, so that it
contains a flashing edit cursor.
2 Choose Event > Event Operations > Select/Split
Notes .
3 Select the Bottom option and leave the num-
ber of notes set to 1.
4 Click Apply.
Input Quantize
When Input Quantize is enabled, all recorded
MIDI notes are quantized automatically.
To enable Input Quantize:
1 Choose Event > Event Operations > Input Quan-
tize .
2 In the Input Quantize page, select Enable Input
Quantize .
3 Configure the other options in the Input
Quantize page. (For more information on the
Quantize options, see “Quantize” on page 798.)
4 When finished, close the Event Operations
window.
In order for notes to be considered a chord,
their start times must be within thirty-two
ppq ticks of each other.
Event Operations window, Input Quantize
Use Input Quantize for drum machine style
loop recording (see “Loop Recording in MIDI
Merge Mode” on page 399).