A couple of tips that will flatten your learning curve a bit:
- 1) Read through the Commands Window [SHIFT-L]. You may want to print out all 28 pages of it (or however many it's up to now). You can change the keyboard bindings in the Commands Window, but more importantly, you'll find many commands that have no way to access them unless you ADD a keyboard binding. You can do it either through the computer keyboard or any MIDI device. The real hidden power is in this window.
2) Take a look at the DP Tips Sheet in this forum, and its accompanying thread. The tips sheet has been added to chronologically, without any sort of organization, so it's pretty scattered. You can search for keywords using Safari's page search. (Command-F) If you pay attention to the headers for each tip, you'll see that there are categories and "works in __(window)__." These can aid in your searches. For example, you use Safari's page search (Command-F) and type in "Tracks Overview Window" or just "Overview" and use Command-G to zip through them to see any tips or shortcuts for that window. (and that's not a bad place to start.)
On page 2 of the tips sheet, you will find a couple of articles that might help grasp some concepts about selections and MIDI editing in DP:
DP allows you to choose where Middle C is, so be sure you are using the Middle C that you think you're using. It's in the Preferences, somewhere in the first few panes, IIRC. Yamaha MIDI devices have long used C3 for Middle C, while Kurzweil and certain others have used the more traditional C4. It's the same note, but the labeling is an octave apart.
If you need a frequency chart, with MIDI note numbers, you'll find those here:
Middle C3 Frequency Chart:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/75122252/FrequencyChart.pdf [/list]
There's lots more, but you'll find a lot in the Tips Sheet thread, beyond the actual Tips Sheet, so I'll let you absorb at your own rate for now. I've got dozens of links for helping people get up to speed, so don't hesitate to ask.
Shooshie
