To copy or erase captured (or edited) MIDI data

Once you’ve either captured MIDI data or edited MIDI data in the score (using the MIDI Tool), you can either copy this MIDI data to other parts of the score or erase it completely from a selected region. For example, if you’re creating a piano piece in which the sustain pedal should be pressed at the beginning of each measure and released at the end, you only have to create this pattern of MIDI controller data once using the MIDI Tool. Thereafter, you can simply copy the “pedaling” data from that one measure to any other measures in the score.

When you “erase” MIDI data, you’re erasing variations from the default value of the particular MIDI data you’re editing. For example, if you erase Key Velocity data from a region, you’re effectively restoring the default velocity value (such as 64) to every note in the region. (You set this default velocity value in the Base Key Velocity box [choose Playback Controls from the Windows menu, click the expand arrow].) Similarly, if you erase Note Duration (Start/Stop Time) data from a region, you’re erasing the difference between the notated attacks and releases of the notes and the actual attack and release points (as recorded in HyperScribe or edited with the MIDI Tool). In short, you’re restoring the playback of the selected region to a straightforward, “perfect” rhythmic feel.

1. Click the MIDI Tool  . The MIDI Tool menu appears.
2. From the MIDI Tool menu, select the MIDI data type you want to erase or copy. Choose Key Velocities, Note Durations, or Continuous Data; if you choose Continuous Data, a dialog box appears so that you can specify which kind of MIDI continuous data you want to edit. Click the appropriate button (Sustain Pedal, Modulation Wheel, and so on), or enter the continuous data number in the text box. Click OK.
3. Select the region whose playback data you want to affect. Click to select one measure, shift-click to select additional measures, drag-enclose to select several on-screen measures, click to the left of the staff to select the entire staff, or choose Select All from the Edit menu.
4. To erase the selected MIDI data type from the selected region, press Delete, or use the Selection Tool to clear Continuous Data.
5. To copy the selected MIDI data type to another region, drag the selected region so that it’s superimposed on the first target measure. If the first target measure is not on-screen, scroll until you see it. Then, while pressing ctrloption and shift simultaneously, click the first target measure. The “How many times?” dialog box appears (unless the first target measure is directly above or below the first source measure).
6. Type the number of times you want the material (horizontally) copied. Click OK (or press return).

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