The selection SHIFT-LEFT, SHIFT-RIGHT, SHIFT-UP, SHIFT-DOWN

All edit functions in MIDI Locator's edit menu are mass processing functions. These are functions which change MIDI event's behavoir, e.g. like Volume change, or they change MIDI event's positions like Cut, Copy, Paste or Move. But they all affect many MIDI events in one step. So you have to define an area inside your workspace which has to be affected by such a function.

Therefore you have to make a selection.

Make your selection by moving the mouse to the upper left point where it should appear and click it one time.


Click inside workspace to define upper left corner of the selection

Now the cursor is blinking at this position. Move the mouse over the cursor, press the left mouse button and hold it. Move the mouse now, and stretch your selection. Release the mouse button if your selection has the right size.


Moving mouse for sizing the selection

When you make selections of course you won't create it in an empty space like shown above, you will cover the measures you need to process :


Selection covers measures

An alternative way to make a selection is to use your PC keyboard's <shift> key while moving the cursor with your cursor keys. The selection grows in direction you move.


Edit functions which don't need selections

Some functions are also mass processing functions, but don't need a whole selection to define their destination, because the cursor's position alone could also determine the events which have to be processed. Insert and delete can be called for both - with or without selection.

Functions which can process MIDI data defined by cursor's positions are :