Enter notes step by step
Audition, then commit
Without record mode, play keys until the note, chord or slice sounds right. PressReturn while still holding them: they are written at the edit cursor as one step. Use → / ← before releasing to set the length.
Delete the previous step
Good to know
- There are two ways to step-enter. In record mode every key writes a step at once; without record mode you audition first and press
Returnto write. - Keys pressed within 50 ms of each other form a chord at the same step.
- Held pitches are written at the velocity you played them at, from the computer keyboard, the number row or a controller; a slice keeps the gain it played at.
- On a sample track, each slice is written at its full length, and the cursor lands on the next grid line after it.
- Inside an open MIDI clip,
Returnlays steps at the piano roll’s cursor, one grid cell each, until a neighboring clip leaves no room.
How does the arrow-key resize work?
How does the arrow-key resize work?
- Releasing the held key ends the resize.
⌘,⇧and⌥arrows keep their navigation meaning while you hold a key.
When does Return not write a step?
When does Return not write a step?
- In record mode, where every key already writes.
- During a live take.
- With a range marked:
Returnfills the range. - In an open clip with marked notes or a drawn region:
Returnstamps or duplicates them (Piano Roll).
What does ⌫ remove?
What does ⌫ remove?
- A clip that lies inside the step is removed.
- A clip running through the step is split or trimmed, so only that step’s content goes.
- On an empty step only the cursor moves back.
- With a clip or range selected,
⌫deletes the selection instead.