Fl Studio Change Velocity Of Multiple Notes
Jalisa Landgren
But anyway, whatever that is for you, use that key combination and when you hold down those modifiers keys when the mouse is over the notes it turns into a tiny little speaker icon. Then you can drag it up or down to increase or decrease the velocity of any note you have selected, even if they are from multiple tracks.
The most straightforward method is to open your piano roll editor and navigate to the bottom of the window. MIDI notes will have a set of bars at the bottom of the screen indicating their velocity value. Left-click and hold, then drag the slider up or down to increase or decrease its velocity.
Bear in mind that you can still individually adjust desired note velocities at any time. Simply right-click to deselect all the notes and then left-click whichever one you want to change separately, as some may sound better suited than others.
As we have seen, notes in the MIDI Note Editor can be moved both horizontally (changing their position in time) and vertically (changing their transposition). They can be moved either by clicking and dragging, or with the arrow keys on your computer keyboard. Notes moved with the arrow keys are always subject to grid and offset snapping, while notes dragged with the mouse can be freely moved until reaching the previous or next grid or offset point. If you are playing the clip while you edit notes, you can listen to them play in their new assignments as you change them.
Tip: To set a group of notes so that they all have the same velocity, select their markers in the Velocity Editor, drag them up or down to either maximum or minimum velocity, and then adjust velocity to the desired value.
As we saw earlier, Draw Mode allows drawing identical velocities for all notes within a grid tile. While in Draw Mode, velocity drawing is limited to only those notes that are currently selected. To draw markers individually (as you would want to with a crescendo, for instance) deactivate grid snapping with the CTRL-4(Win) / CMD-4(Mac) shortcut, or simply hold down the ALT(Win) / CMD(Mac) modifier.
Tip: To draw a velocity ramp with notes that are all in the same key track, click a key in the piano roll to select all notes within the desired key track. Make sure Draw Mode is activated and draw the ramp into the Velocity Editor. This will affect only the selected notes.
Tip #2: To draw a linear velocity ramp across a selection of notes, first select the notes that should be affected (using the Shift modifier to select non-adjacent notes if necessary). Make sure Draw Mode is activated and draw the line into the Velocity Editor while holding the CTRL(Win) / ALT(Mac) modifier.
While pressing the CTRL(Win) / CMD(Mac) key, vertical movements in Draw Mode correspond to velocity changes. This means that, with one horizontal motion and one vertical motion, you can draw multiple notes and their velocities without releasing the mouse button. If you change velocity with this vertical movement, Live will remember the change and use your new velocity on any notes that you draw afterward.
Velocity values can be randomized by first clicking in the Velocity Editor lane, which will change the Randomize Range slider to an integer value. Clicking on the Randomize button will then randomize velocity values for selected notes (or notes with selected markers). If no markers are selected, values for all notes will be randomized.
For example, if a velocity range of +20 is set for a selected note with a velocity value of 60, a random value between 60 and 80 will be chosen each time the note is played. A velocity range can also be applied to the entire clip if no specific notes are selected.
To randomize probability values, first click in the Chance Editor lane. This will change the Randomize Range slider to a percent value. Clicking on the Randomize button will then randomize probability values for selected notes (or notes with selected markers), depending on the focused lane. If no markers are selected, values for all notes will be randomized.
When multiple notes or a range of time are selected in the MIDI Note Editor, Note Stretch markers will appear, allowing notes to be scaled proportionally in time. The markers are a pair of downward-pointing indicators that snap to the beginning and end of the selection.
In the MIDI Note Editor, you can view notes in multiple MIDI clips at the same time. This helps you to see melodic and rhythmic relationships between different clips when creating and refining musical ideas, and allows you to edit material across separate tracks and scenes more quickly. In addition to editing notes across multiple clips, you can also modify various parameters for the selected clips.
While multi-clip editing is useful for looking at clips across different tracks, it can also come in handy when you need to compare and edit multiple clips within the same track. For example, you can create evolving pattern progressions by adding notes to a clip, then making a variation to the clip in the following scene and so on, while maintaining an overview of the other clips in the track.
And just to prove the old chestnut "if you can't find at least 3 ways of doing something in Logic you're not looking hard enough". Select all your regions (Command+A) and in the Region Parameter Box set Dynamics to 'Fix'. This will set the notes velocity at 64 and you can change the Velocity parameter to increase or decrease this (from 1-127). If at any stage you should want the original performance back just set the parameters to their default values.
Hi Lilith. The fader is already automized. The fact is I have to decrease the volume of all the track, and for doing this I have to act on the automation of the MIDI notes. To avoid adjusting each note velocity, I want to select them all and lower them together. I will try holding the ctrl + left mouse as you wrote.
As you place the Arrow at the front or back of a note the pointer changes to the Sizing tool, and you can click and drag to extend a note either backwards or forward in time. Perhaps a lesser-know Sizing option is the ability to automatically resize adjacent notes so that you don't overlap them and they maintain their closeness. For this to work, the notes must be adjacent in time so that one note ends as another begins. Hold the Alt key and as you extend the length of one note, the adjacent note is shortened by the corresponding amount.
If you hold Alt while over an existing note, you can edit the velocity by dragging up and down. Notes are usually entered with a velocity of 100, but this can be changed over in the information bar on the left of the piano roll. A lesser-known function is that holding Alt when entering a note allows you to draw a slightly weird line of notes that starts at the point you clicked and follows the movements of the cursor. This is useful for creating note runs.
The Eraser and Mute tools are fairly self-explanatory. Click on individual notes or selected notes with the Eraser tool to delete them, or click and drag in space and you'll delete any notes you encounter. Same thing with the Mute tool, except that it changes the status of the note from unmuted to muted or vice versa.
The Split tool splits notes into two separate notes at the point of click, or the nearest grid line if snap is turned on. If multiple notes are selected it will split all of them at that same point. Holding Alt will split the part you are working on, rather than the notes.
To change the velocity of a note, click on the corresponding stalk and drag up and down. As you do so the note will play repeatedly, which is very helpful, but if you find that annoying you can untick the Audition Notes box in the inspector panel on the left. Select multiple notes and you can change the velocity of all of them together. Press Ctrl (Mac: Cmd) and they will all jump to the velocity of the stalk you are clicking and dragging on.
You may often encounter a problem with selecting the correct velocity stalk when you have notes of a chord starting at the same time. The stalks overlap each other, and when you click to move one you move them all. This may be what you want if you are trying to change the velocity of a played chord, but if you hold Alt then your dragging only affects the root note. To edit another note in the chord you'll need to click to select the note you want to change first, and then you'll only be moving the velocity of that note. But perhaps the fastest method is to click and drag on the note itself while holding Ctrl+Alt (Mac: Cmd+Opt).
One other tip to help you identify velocity in crowded spaces is to change the Note Color option to Velocity, which you'll find in the menu bar across the top. This is my favourite view as it gives a visual indication of expression while I'm editing.
Colour, velocity, start time, duration, pitch, pan and much more can all be configured, giving you precision control over your notes. If you ever stuff up, just hit reset to change it back to the defaults.
This might seem obvious right? Not so. Moving up or down with the arrows actually changes the view position in the piano roll. Moving the notes requires you to select them, hold Shift + Up/Down arrow, and they will move up or down a semitone at a time.
Everyone should try editing the velocity of their notes when writing a chord progression, melody, bassline or any sort of MIDI pattern. It can certainly help to add a degree of humanity to an otherwise bland chord progression.
To discard the lengths of notes and turn them back into steps, select the desired notes and hit Shift + D. Now you can treat it like a step sequencer but with the added flexibility of using multiple notes.
You have the added ability to customise the expression of the newly-generated notes by moving the colourful pan, velocity, release etc. knobs, which can be an interesting way to get unique variation in your patterns. Lastly, you can group these notes by selecting the corresponding button if you so wish. Now you have a new, compelling rhythmic pattern, all in a few clicks.
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