Pro Tools Score Editor
In this video, we'll look at how to use the score editorwindow to create and edit MIDI notes, while viewing them as musical notation.First, let's open up the score editor window.We can do this in several different ways.First, we can go to the window menu, and open the score editor here.Or, we can use the key commands Ctrl + Opt +Equals on a Mac, or Alt + Start + Equals in Windows.And here's our score editor window.I'm going to close this and show you a couple ofother ways to open it.We can select a clip and right click it, and open in score editor.
This will open that clip in the score editor, and you cansee that the notes that are in that clip are selected in blue.Another way to open the score editor is by double-clicking the MIDI clip.But first, we need to go to the Setup Menu and make sure we have a preference set.Here, if we have double-clicking a MIDI clip open, Score Editorselected, when we then double-click it will open the score editor.And again, our selection is indicated by the notes in blue.The Toolbar menu up top here is much like we've seen before.We have our Edit Tools, MIDI Note Duration and Velocity, andPlay MIDI Notes When Editing. We have Mirrored MIDI Editing.
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We have Linked Timeline and Edit Selection.And we have Double Bar Line.This new button here is only in the Score Editor, and it allows usto put a double bar line in at the very end of our score.We have our cursor position here and again this allows us tokeep track of where we are in time, and just like inthe other windows this shows us where our cursor is in timeand it even shows the note on which our cursor is positioned.Here we have our grid and the grid value and our edit selection start and end.Let's select the Zoom tool.Just like in the Edit window and in theMIDI Editor windows, we can click once to zoomin, or hold the Option key on a Mac or the Alt key on Windows to zoom out.
We can also click and drag with the marquee zoomer to zoom in on a selection.With the trimmer tool we can shorten or lengthen notes.I'm going to select with the marquee section of the trimmer tool.Notice how we have a marquee tool while we're using the trimmer tool.This allows us to make selections and then trim them.So I'm going to select the first noteshere, in bar nine, and I'm going to trim them.Now if I scroll down, notice how the same changes aremade in bar 17, that's because we have mirrored MIDI editing enabled.
If we don't want this to happen, we can uncheck mirrored MIDI editing.And that change will not ripple accross all the copies of the clip.Now let's choose the Selector Tool.With the Selector Tool, we can select a range.Again, notice that the notes in our selection are highlighted blue.Once we've selected notes, we can delete them,move them, transpose them, or process them with the event operations like quantize.I'm going to delete these notes, and notice thatwe have two whole note rests in their place.Now I'm going to undo this cause I actually didn't want to delete them.Also note that the note selector tool only includes MIDI note and velocity data.
It won't include any other MIDI or continuous controller data.So if you want to edit the score, to changethe length of a note for example, other MIDI datawill not move with the note.If you want to alter all the MIDI data, usethe Edit window or the MIDI editor windows instead.Now let's choose the Grabber tool.With the Grabber tool we can select individual notes orwith the Shift key held down we can select multiple notes.We can also use its marquee to select a range of notes.Once they're selected, I can use this tool to click and drag.Let's say I wanted to move this entire note selection up a whole note.
I'm going to undo that change. And now let's select the Pencil tool.With the Pencil tool we can insert notes, select notes and move notes.Just click and draw to insert a note, and click to select and drag to move the note.If we switch to the Line Pencil tool, all the notes thatwe add will be on one pitch with the exact same velocity.Notice how when we move up and down, the pitchchanges, but all the notes are still on the same pitch.The rest of the pencil tool shapes are essentially the same,except that they have different velocity curves, depending on the shape.
So you can experiment with triangle, square, or random.To delete a note with the Pencil tool, just hold Opton a Mac, or Alt in Windows, and click the note.This functionality is just like when editing MIDI elsewhere in Pro Tools.Any notesthat we add or remove from the score editor, as well as any notesthat we make, will be reflected in the edit window, and in the MIDI editor.Also note that the score editor automatically adds rests as needed.But you can manually insert or move rests if you want to.So let's add an O here in bar eight, and I'm going to close this window.
And if we zoom in to our clip here.I'm going to make this track larger.And let's select the Zoom tool, and zoom in on the last bar.And here we can see that the note that weadded, has been added to our score here as well.The main difference is how the data is presented to you,we'll dig deeper into the Score Editor in the next video.
Leute es ist echt zu verzweifeln mit Euch. Programme die sich nicht installieren lassen ist ein echtes Problem in der Linux Welt. Jeder macht sein eigenen Scheiss. Kein einheitliches Konzept oder Standards an der sich jeder Softwareentwickler daran zu halten hat. Kein Wunder das viele Wechselwillige nach eine kurze Zeit das Handtuch werfen. Ich habe auch nach Stunden das Prog nicht zum laufen gebracht. Sowas schädigt das Ansehen von Linux. Sehr schade
Absolute crap for the Mac OS. You have to compile the app yourself? Nope, not in this day and age, mate! And the instructions don't even work. There is NO .pkg that it mentions.
Canorus works wonderful.
Canorus is a very helpful tool for composers and rearrangers. It delivers great output with the lilypond backend. Currently though there are some speed issues for larger sheets to a score, especially when adding notes. I like the scripting possibilities but the developers have still to do quite a bit on documentation this feature. It's nice to see how the different views (help, (multiple) score, source, cli) integrate in the UI. Zoom with the scroll wheel works flawlessly. I'm really looking forward for being able to customize all the available function so I seldom need to use the mouse. I only once set a piece with a Midi keyboard (I cannot play piano/keyboard) and this worked without any problems.
canorus is small and works nicely
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