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 :