Note Editing Windows

Segment Designer and Pattern Editor provide editing windows, within the main editing window of the module, that contain the musical note content of a part in a Sequence Track, Pattern Track, or pattern in a style. By default, these windows are strips similar to other track strips, however, they have a maximize button at the right edge. Click this button, or double-click any part of the strip, to open the editing window. To close it, click the minimize button or double-click the name of the part.

The following figure shows a maximized editing window for a part in a Pattern Track.

The window contains the following elements:

• Instrument button

  Displays the current instrument assignment on this PChannel. Click to change the instrument assigned to this PChannel in the current band. When editing a style pattern, the current band is the one selected for audition of the style. When editing a Sequence Track or a Pattern Track, it is the last band that played.

  If no instrument has yet been assigned to the PChannel, click the Band button and select Insert New Instrument. This is equivalent to editing the PChannel Properties in Band Editor. For more information, see PChannel Instrument Assignment.

• Band button

  Displays the following menu.

  Command	Effect
  Insert New Instrument	Assign an instrument to the PChannel.
  Open Band Editor	Edit the current band in Band Editor.
  Locate Band	Highlight the current band in the Band Track. Not enabled in Pattern Editor.

• Zoom buttons

  Click to adjust the vertical size of the pitch guide and note editing region.

• Variation Buttons

  Click to activate and deactivate variations. To display or place notes in the editing region of a pattern, you must activate at least one variation in the part. These variation buttons do not appear in sequence track windows, because sequences do not have variations.

• Pitch guide

  At the left side of the part editing window is a pitch guide in the form of a keyboard. This area can also be viewed as a grand staff. See Pitch Guide Views.

• Special tracks

  Continuous controller track, and, for patterns, a variation switch point track. See Continuous Controllers and Variation Switch Points.

• Note editing region

  The editing region is aligned horizontally with the timeline, with colored vertical lines indicating the following:

  • Heavy vertical lines represent barlines.
  • Medium vertical lines represent beats.
  • Thin vertical lines represent Grid Divisions.

  Notes are represented by blue rectangles, and have the following properties:

  • Pitch, represented by the vertical position of the rectangle. In hybrid notation view, the pitch may be further defined by an accidental.
  • Start time, represented by the horizontal position of the left edge of the rectangle.
  • Duration, represented by the width of the rectangle.
  • Velocity, represented by the height of the rectangle.