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MIDI Editors
There are several ways to edit MIDI in Cubase. You can use the tools and functions in the Project window for large-scale editing or the functions on the MIDI menu to process MIDI parts in various ways. To manually edit your MIDI data on a graphical interface, you can use the MIDI editors.
Key Editor
The Key Editor is the default MIDI editor. It displays notes graphically in a piano roll-style grid. The Key Editor allows for detailed editing of notes and non-note events, such as MIDI controllers.
Note Display
The note display is the main zone in the Key Editor. It contains a grid in which note events are shown as boxes.

Note Display

The note display is the main zone in the Key Editor. It contains a grid in which note events are shown as boxes.

The width of a box corresponds to the note length. The vertical position of a box corresponds to the note number (pitch), with higher note events higher up in the grid.

Depending on the zoom factor, the note events show the note names.

Note

You can change the naming format and the note names of the pitches in the Pitch Notation section of the Preferences dialog (Event Display—Chords&Pitches page).

You can activate Pitch Visibility On/Off on the Key Editor toolbar to show only the pitches with events or the pitches suggested by the Scale Assistant. This hides the keyboard keys whose pitches are not used and shows note names on the remaining keys.