Alter Feel - Note Durations

 

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How to get there

Click the MIDI Tool  image\MIDI_Tool.gif. Select some measures. (If you’re editing a one-staff region, double-click to enter the MIDI Tool window.) Specify the MIDI data type you want to edit by choosing Note Durations from the MIDI Tool Menu. If you’re in the MIDI Tool window, select the region you want to affect by dragging through the "graph" display area or by selecting the handles of individual notes whose MIDI data you want to edit. Choose Alter Feel from the MIDI Tool Menu.

What it does

The Alter Feel dialog box’s contents change to reflect your MIDI data type selection (key velocities or note durations; the Alter Feel command isn’t available for Continuous Data). Like the Add or Percent Alter commands, the Alter Feel command lets you add a positive or negative number to the durations of every note in the selected region. However, in the Alter Feel dialog box, you can target individual beats in each measure to receive the alterations.

When you read the following descriptions of the three text boxes, keep in mind that the number in each text box produces a different effect depending on whether the Absolute or Percent of Original button is selected (see below).

By entering a value in this text box, you can increase or decrease the velocity (or the Start and Stop Times) of only the other beats of the measures in the selected region. (If you’ve selected Note Durations from the MIDI Tool Menu, you’re editing both the Start Time of each "other beat" and the Stop Time of the previous note.)

The number in this text box represents the amount by which you want to modify every backbeat in the selected region. (If you’ve selected Note Durations from the MIDI Tool Menu, you’re editing both the Start Time of each backbeat and the Stop Time of the previous note.)

One of the best uses for this option is to slightly delay the playback of every backbeat (by choosing Note Durations from the MIDI Tool Menu and then choosing the Alter Feel command). For example, by entering 171 into the Backbeats By text box, you create a true triplet swing feel.

Use this dialog box to shift the attack (in time) of notes by shifting the Start and Stop Times on particular beats by a fixed amount. Hint: 1024 EDUs=one quarter note.

 

To view this dialog box, click the MIDI Tool. Select some measures. (If you’re editing a one-staff region, double-click to enter the MIDI Tool window.) Specify the MIDI data type you want to edit by choosing Note Durations from the MIDI Tool Menu. If you’re in the MIDI Tool window, select the region you want to affect by dragging through the "graph" display area or by selecting the handles of individual notes whose MIDI data you want to edit. Choose Alter Feel from the MIDI Tool Menu.

 

See Also:

MIDI

MIDI Tool Menu

MIDI Tool

 

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