Set Note On events CTRL-F

This function is an additional feature of MIDI Locator full version and allows you to fill a selected area with any number of one single Note On event.

To fill a selection with a given number of Note On events which have all the same key is most often used for drum instruments. Maybe you start a new MIDI file, which has 4/4 beat and you will fill your MIDI file with one single stupid kick sound on every beat. You could simply create a drum track with this function :


Example of the final result we want to reach

You first have to choose the MIDI channel you want to use for your events. Do this before selecting the key because the content of the key combo box will change if you switch between the MIDI channel which is currently a drum channel and the MIDI channel which is currently an instrument channel. If you select MIDI channel 10 (which is a drum channel by default), the key combo box will be filled with drum instruments.


Set Note On events

Further you have to specify the key/drum itself.

In our example, we wanted to fill our selection with kick drums on every beat. We suppose that our selection has a width of 8 measures, so we enter the result of 8 x 4 = 32 events in the edit field "number of events". The notelength of drum instruments is not important an can be set to sixteen (because drum instruments are not stopped by reaching the notelength - rather by reaching the wave form / sample length). But if you fill a selection with normal instrument Note On events, please watch out that the single notes will not reach into each other.

The volume values of the Note On events will be set by MIDI Locator to 100. You can later change these values to the needed fade in or out curve in MIDI Locator's volume (databyte 2 of Note On events) function.

Go on reading there after you have now basically created the Note On events.