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working in session page

if you hae a big audio files, you can highlight some of it and then hit right click and it trims it to just the parts you had highlighted and wish to keep.

BUT
to do the same with MIDi is a messy procedure of copying to arrange view and cutting there.

I like to record MIDI for quite for a few measures, and then just take the section out that seems best. I wan to delete the rest as its visually distracting.

Is there a better way?

hit FOLD, zoom way out, drag select, hit delete.

or

select the notes, copy/cut them, delete it all and paste the notes back in.

or

copy/bounce the notes to another clip.

Tone Deft wrote:hit FOLD, zoom way out, drag select, hit delete.

or
select the notes, copy/cut them, delete it all and paste the notes back in.
or
copy/bounce the notes to another clip.

I guess the third plan could work, but still messy. Remember Im in *session* view!

drb wrote: BUT
to do the same with MIDi is a messy procedure of copying to arrange view and cutting there.


Is there a better way?

I suspect you may not be doing it quite the easiest way (besides your ideal wish of a command directly in Session view - I don't know of one)

If you have the notes you want to keep in the loop brace, (easy by right click - loop selection), drag the clip into Arrange (the Arrange clip will only show the selected notes, no trimming needed), and consolidate. Now you have a clip of only the wanted notes.

Drag back to Session, done

longjohns wrote:

drb wrote: BUT
to do the same with MIDi is a messy procedure of copying to arrange view and cutting there.


Is there a better way?

I suspect you may not be doing it quite the easiest way (besides your ideal wish of a command directly in Session view - I don't know of one)

If you have the notes you want to keep in the loop brace, (easy by right click - loop selection), drag the clip into Arrange (the Arrange clip will only show the selected notes, no trimming needed), and consolidate. Now you have a clip of only the wanted notes.

Drag back to Session, done

Yes, thats how Ive been doing it, but it's a weird comvoluted process dont you agree?

Try an audio clip. All you need to do is highlite, then right click , 'manage sample' Much easier.

Oh, ok

No, I guess I don't think it's that big of a deal.

But certainly it is more work than with an audio clip, you're right!

Using Live 8

Select the measures you no long need.

Note the yellow highlight.

Choose Edit > Delete Time (CTRL + Shift + Delete)

Everything highlighted will be removed and events/time will collapse.

You may need to re-position your loop brace.

Very easy

hightlight the section you want to keep,
Command+L (will set loop brackets to selected area)
right click the clip and select crop clip

Done