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Choose the MIDI or Instrument track for step
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entry from the Destination pop-up menu.
Choose the note value you wish to enter from
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the Step Increment section.
Play a note or chord on your MIDI instru-
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ment. This enters the note and moves to the
next step of the insertion point.
To increase a note's length while using Step Input:
Play and hold a note on your MIDI instru-
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ment.
When a note is being held on the MIDI key-
board, Next Step changes to read "Incre-
ment."
Choose the note value that you would like to
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add and press the Increment button.
Release the note on your MIDI keyboard to
move to the next step insertion point.
Step Input Controls
The Step Input page has the following controls:
Enable When selected, adds MIDI events to the
destination track when you play your external
MIDI keyboard. Additionally, each previously
record-enabled MIDI track is taken out of record
enable.
If a Default Thru Instrument is defined in the
MIDI Preferences page, it is disabled when Step
Input is enabled, and is re-enabled when Step
Input is no longer disabled.
Destination Lets you select the destination track
for the Step Input from a pop-up list of all the
MIDI tracks in your session.
Step Increment
The options in the Step Increment section let
you set the spacing and duration of MIDI events
entered using the Step Input operation. You can
select any size from whole notes to sixty-fourth
notes (including dotted values).
Tuplet Lets you input irregular note groupings
(such as triplets or quintuplets). The tuplet
length is calculated from the note spacing selec-
tion and the Tuplet values. For example, an
eighth note equals 480 ticks, so tuplet eighth
notes with 3 in time of 2 would yield a note
spacing of 320 ticks (480 ticks / 3 * 2).
Note Length Lets you select the note length as a
percentage of the spacing value. For example, an
eighth note equals 480 ticks, so an eighth note
with an 80% duration would be 384 ticks long.
100% 80%
Note length percentages
Options
Use Input Velocity When selected, MIDI notes
are recorded using the velocity that you play on
your MIDI keyboard.
Set Velocity To When selected, MIDI notes are
recorded with the velocity that you specify in
the Velocity field. This value can be set with the
Velocity slider.
Enable Numeric Keypad Shortcuts When se-
lected, Step Input options can be selected from
the numeric keypad. See "Numeric Keypad
Shortcuts" on page 607.
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