Really simple question.

[Sleeper256]

It drives me crazy when I make a couple of midi notes, and then zoom in to one spot, and try to drag a selection box around a group of midi notes, but then when I reach the end of that part of window, it doesn't allow me to move past the boundary. I have select a portion of it in the part of the window, and then scroll over myself, and hold Shift down while I select the rest.

Is there something I'm missing here? For all the great amazingness Ableton is, I wouldn't think it would be missing such a fundamental feature. I've never run into another program that restrained you to that part of the window like that.

[Sleeper256]

No ideas?

[arafel]

Ahh.. just tried what you talking about...

I tried Ctrl, Option and Alt (command on mac I think..I use a logitech keyboard on my mac.. so some of the keys are labelled differently)

Alt seemed to do the trick of selecting notes and still moving around the clip window.
Hold down the ALT (Command) key while scrolling to get your 'cursor selection' to move beyond the clip view.

Cheers..

Ps. Put that in the Tips & Tricks sticky about "things I wish i had learned ages ago"... cause I just learned that just now..

[JuanSOLO]

I just click the key in the piano roll and select all notes in that key, OR alt (maybe comand) A I think, select all.

[arafel]

Nice one JuanSolo.... thats a killer tip!

Another thing on the "things I should have learned earlier iist:"

[Sleeper256]

Awesome, thanks for that awesome tip. Something else I just figured out is that when you've got a certain range selected you can doubleclick the timeline (is that what it's called?) and it will zoom into only that range.

Also, when you hold Cmd + Alt, the cursor turns into a hand, and you can drag the view around the track like you would if you moved your cursor to the timeline and did it the normal way.

And for me, on a Macbook, it was Cmd, not Alt.


I also noticed when you hold Alt and drag around in the velocity slider box, instead of making a box, it makes a line that can't select things...I don't see the use for that.


Thanks again!

I'm going to have to have a look at this "tips and tricks" sticky.


By the way, is this the right forum to post questions like this?

[JuanSOLO]

Yes this is the right place man.

[henke]

By the way, is this the right forum to post questions like this?

Yes.

[Palmer Eldritch]

Select some Midi Notes then Cmd-Click (Mac) and drag a line over the velocity sliders of the selected notes to edit all these velocities at once (crescendo/decrescendo/fixed velocities).