You can edit notes in the Piano Roll view and the Inline Piano Roll view with the same methods. The Smart tool, Freehand tool and Select tool are useful for quick note editing. You can do the same edits with commands in the Process menu (Length, Slide, Transpose). If you want to edit multiple notes at the same time, first select them with the Select tool.
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Note: You can specify the width of velocity lines in the Piano Roll view. To do so, go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Editing and adjust the Velocity Solid Width setting. For details, see Customization - Editing (Advanced).
Tip: If you want to audition a MIDI note’s velocity while adjusting the velocity, go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Editing and enable Velocity Audition.
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3. Do one of the following:A. First and last selected velocity lines remain stationary B. Hold down the CTRL key and drag any selected velocity; all other selected velocities ramp toward the dragged velocity line
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Note: By default, when splitting clips with the Split tool or S keyboard shortcut, MIDI notes that overlap the split position will also be split, and MIDI chase events (such as continuous controllers, Pitch Wheel, and Patch Change) are inserted at the split position. You can enable/disable this behavior with the Split MIDI Notes option in Edit > Preferences > Customization - Editing (see Customization - Editing (Advanced)).
1. This behavior can be bypassed by adding the following INI variable to the WinCake section of Cakewalk.ini (see Cakewalk.ini):
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3. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cakewalk Music Software\Sonar\Core.
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5. Double-click the new AllowLassoVelInNotesPane DWORD event to open the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, then change the value to 1 (0=OFF; 1=ON).
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