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Editing rhythm and quantizing

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Editing rhythm and quantizing

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- After recording MIDI, you'll likely want to edit the performance, and rhythmic errors are often the most noticeable, so let's start there. I've got Exercise Three from Chapter Five open, and let's go ahead and select this first clip on the drums track so that it will display down here in the MIDI Editor. Now, all MIDI editing starts with making a selection, so let's talk about the various ways that we can select MIDI notes. So, first of all, you can select a MIDI note by just click-selecting it. (deep note) Now we heard the sound associated with that note because the previous switch is on so lets disable that because as you select notes that can get quite noisy and annoying. Now, if I want to extent this selection to other notes I can do that by just holding down my shift key and selecting. And that can include contiguous notes or non-contiguous notes. Now, another way we can select a group of notes is just a click…

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