Lengthening/Shortening notes in the piano roll editor

You can change the duration of notes belonging to pitched instruments from within the piano roll editor in Play mode. This automatically changes the notated duration of notes in any relevant score and part layouts.

Prerequisite

  • Notated Durations is selected in the Play toolbox.

  • Object Selection is selected in the Play toolbox.

Procedure

  1. Expand the instrument tracks whose notes you want to lengthen/shorten.
  2. In the piano roll editor, select the notes you want to lengthen/shorten.
    Note

    When instrument tracks have independent voice playback enabled, only notes in the currently selected voice appear in the piano roll editor. Selecting All voices from the Voices menu in the track header shows all notes belonging to the corresponding instrument.

  3. Lengthen/Shorten the notes in any of the following ways:

    • To lengthen notes by the current rhythmic grid resolution, press Shift-Alt/Opt-Right Arrow.

    • To shorten notes by the current rhythmic grid resolution, press Shift-Alt/Opt-Left Arrow.

    • To double the length of notes, press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-Alt/Opt-Right Arrow.

    • To halve the length of notes, press Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-Alt/Opt-Left Arrow.

    • Click and drag the right end of one of the selected notes to the length you want.

Result

The selected notes are lengthened/shortened.

Note

If you select multiple notes that end at different rhythmic positions and drag them with the mouse pointer, changing their duration forces all the notes to end at the same rhythmic position.