Fixed Velocity, Fixed Note Length

[EARMONSTER]

Is there an easier way to select all midi notes in a region, then change their velocity to fixed and their note length to fixed besides using the laborious drop down menu two times per region?

 

If I am working on a pop song where everything is snapped to the grid and I also need all velocities and note lengths to be the same this takes forever!

[Jordi Torres]

Hi,

 

Consider Option-Shift dragging your note lengths and velocities in the Event List, for example.

 

Or, use the MIDI Transform Window:

 

 

J.

[nebula]

I think Apple's Logic team dropped the ball on this one. In all versions of Logic up to version 8, if you had multiple events selected in the event list, you could simply double-click to edit one value, and hold option-shift while pressing Enter - then all selected events would jump to the value you edited (note number, velocity, duration or position)

 

A few years ago I mentioned its absence here on LPH, and I have submitted this as "feedback" to Apple. I can understand if they took this away by accident, but they have even removed references to this feature from the documentation.

 

I guess now they expect us to use the MIDI Transform window. It works, but it's cumbersome and inelegant

[Eric Cardenas]

This works fine in Logic Pro X.

Hold down Option-Shift wile clicking or while dragging.

 

[Jordi Torres]

@nebula

 

Indeed it works, otherwise why even suggest it (see Eric's gif for proof)?

 

J.

[nebula]

Thanks for the reply - first let me say that the operation performed in the gif is different from the operation I described. Eric first performed a shift-option drag to an arbitrary value to make all the selected events equal, then he entered a numeric value for one of the events. Since Logic will then change all events relative to the change of the event you edited, and because he just made them all equal, they all jumped to the same value.

 

The functionality that is gone is the ability to select multiple events, double-click on a value to change it, then hold option-shift while pressing enter to absolutely apply that value to all selected events (i.e. not relative to their original values).

 

Eric's method works and is almost as quick as how it used to work. And I never thought to do it that way. It's still an extra step, but it's a good timesaver.

[anp27]

It's still an extra step, but it's a good timesaver.

 

Still better than having to go to the Piano Roll Editor, Functions, MIDI Transform, Fixed Velocity, Select and Operate.

5 steps. Yikes.

 

I just hit a key command for the Event Editor, hit Option Shift and done. But seriously though... I hope to one day see the Fixed Velocity function as a key command/gesture, just like Fix Note Length.

[Jordi Torres]

Hi,

 

Still better than having to go to the Piano Roll Editor, Functions, MIDI Transform, Fixed Velocity, Select and Operate.

5 steps. Yikes.

 

There's a key command to open the Transform Window.

 

However, I agree that to change one or two things it's probably not worth it (that's why Option-Shift dragging was the first suggestion I made). Still, nothing beats it for batch editing of multiple parameters, so it's good to know we have it.

 

J.