Entering, Editing, and Previewing Notes
To enter notes, select the Drumstick tool and click in the event display.
To enter a note and specify its velocity at the same time, hold down Ctrl/Cmd-Shift, click in the event display and drag up to increase the velocity, and down to decrease the velocity.
NoteYou can deactivate Snap temporarily by pressing Ctrl/Cmd. This way, you can position notes freely even if Snap is activated on the toolbar.
To preview an instrument, click in the Key column for the Instrument.
To mute a drum sound, click in the Mute column for the sound.
To change the length of a note, activate the Show Note Length button on the toolbar, move the mouse pointer over the border of the note so that a double-arrow is shown, then click and drag left or right.
If Snap to Grid is activated, the note end or start snaps to the grid when you change the note length.
To move a note, drag it to another position.
To delete a note, click it with the Erase tool.
To cut, copy, and paste notes, use the standard key commands.
Notes are pasted at the cursor position.
To duplicate notes, select them and press Ctrl/Cmd-[D].
Duplicated notes are inserted after the last note of the selection, according to the set grid.
When entering, editing, and duplicating notes, double notes can occur, that is, notes that are placed exactly on top of other notes. To remedy this, right-click the header of the drum sounds list and select Delete Double Notes.