Topic: [Pro Tools] editing drum tracks

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Replied November 16, 2009 at 21:26 #1931097

Whitten
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In PT you can edit midi four different ways – slide, relative grid, absolute grid….can’t remember the fourth but it’s like snap to position.

You need to be in slide to nudge completely freely, although relative grid sometimes works.
Make sure you are zoomed in, as that defines how finely you can slide things.
Drag the mouse over the notes you want to move, then start sliding.
Probably best to save your song just before, as once they are slid they have no reference to their original position (unless you ‘undo’).
There is another way you can specifically nudge notes using the arrows on your computer keyboard, but you’ll have to look up the PT User Guide to read up about that.

Replied November 16, 2009 at 23:35 #1931103

Gary Putthoff
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Thanks for your reply, was wanting to move the whole fill at once, not just a note at a time. When you drag it from the groove area when EZ Drummer is open and pull it into the track (midi) area and let go, the whole groove or fill won’t move. You can highlight what you just dragged in and delete, etc. but you can’t move it. Don’t know if I am explaining well.

Replied November 17, 2009 at 02:13 #1931105

Brad
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Make sure you have the track in “region” view, it sounds like you are in note view. You can use the “grabber” tool (the little thing that looks like a hand) with the edit mode in either slip or grid to move the region around.

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Replied November 17, 2009 at 05:00 #1931107

Whitten
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ORIGINAL: guitarman5454
Thanks for your reply, was wanting to move the whole fill at once, not just a note at a time.

I don’t know if EZdrummer is different, but when using Superior in Pro Tools I routinely move groups of notes in note edit.
You just drag the hand tool over them which highlights all the notes you want to move.
Or you can do the region thing as suggested above.
In note view you can move any number of notes from 1 to all of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofubdd3umv4&feature=channel

If you grab something and can’t move it, one explanation might be you have the grid selected and the grid is set at 1/4 notes or bigger.
In that way the midi will only snap to the nearest quarter note. If you want to move it by a smaller amount it just wont do anything.
You need to select slip mode in that case.

Replied November 17, 2009 at 16:55 #1931131

Gary Putthoff
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OK figured there must be a way to do this, will try. Thanks!

Replied November 17, 2009 at 16:58 #1931133

Gary Putthoff
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Ok, will try. Thank you!

Replied November 18, 2009 at 19:04 #1931155

Gary Putthoff
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Found the regions vs. notes, very cool to move around the whole region. Thank you. Noticed if I drag a fill into an existing groove verse that when I try to drag around the fill it takes the whole region including the part of the verse I dragged it on top of. Will experiment a little bit with this.

Replied November 18, 2009 at 20:45 #1931164

Whitten
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That’s why I usually use the note selection instead of region.
You just select all the notes in the fill, then you can see the verse groove notes (static) as you slide the fill around.
But yeah, the region view is just as useful for large group editing.
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