How to change default note length?

[rawrooo]

Hi everyone

I'm entering notes with the pencil tool on a MIDI track in the Sequence Editor window. The default note length is a quarter note/480 ticks. How do I change it to a custom duration? Changing it in the Step Record window doesn't affect it here.

Thanks!

[bayswater]

Hi everyone

I'm entering notes with the pencil tool on a MIDI track in the Sequence Editor window. The default note length is a quarter note/480 ticks. How do I change it to a custom duration? Changing it in the Step Record window doesn't affect it here.

Thanks!

As you click with the pencil to create a note, drag to the right or left (perhaps holding down the command key if you have snap on) until the note is the length you want. Subsequent notes will be that length as soon as you click with the pencil tool. To change to a new note length, rinse and repeat.

[stubbsonic]

If you need it to be a VERY specific length, I'd suggest you make a note the length you want first (by manually typing in the duration), then pencil-drag a new note right under it so you can align the start and end to the predefined length.

[mike_o]

I think the pencil tool adjusts to the grid size for all your standard lengths, 1/4, 1/8, etc...

[stubbsonic]

As Bayswater mentioned, it remembers the last note length you dragged and will continue to produce those until you drag a different length. But I don't remember how it relates to the grid.

[bayswater]

As Bayswater mentioned, it remembers the last note length you dragged and will continue to produce those until you drag a different length. But I don't remember how it relates to the grid.

I think that might affect it, but in this case that doesn't matter. Just draw the first one the length you want.

[rawrooo]

Dragging with the pencil did the trick, thanks everyone!