
You can now draw MIDI notes into the Note Editor with the mouse. Switch to Draw Mode by activating the Control Bar’s Draw Mode switch or by pressing the B key. The Velocity and Chance Editor lanes can be resized individually via their split lines, or simultaneously resized by dragging the split line between the lanes and the MIDI Note Editor. These Buttons Toggle the Visibility of Velocity and Chance Editor Lanes. When both lane selectors are hidden pressing the triangular toggle button will show both lanes at once. Underneath the lane selector toggle buttons, a triangular toggle button allows showing or hiding all enabled lanes at once. While the Velocity Editor lane is shown by default, both it and the Chance Editor lane (described in detail below) can be shown or hidden via the lane selector toggle buttons at the left.


When the Notes tab is visible, the MIDI Editor is divided into two editing windows: the upper Note Editor and the lower Expression Editor lanes (consisting of the MIDI Velocity and MIDI Chance Editor lanes). You can read more about these tabs in the Clip View chapter ( see Chapter 8). You can then choose from any of the three Clip View tabs by clicking their tab headers, or using the following key combinations:ĭepending on which Clip View tab is chosen, the Clip View will show different information. To bring up the MIDI Editor, double-click a MIDI clip to open the Clip View.

This instrument can be a virtual instrument in a MIDI track’s device chain ( see Chapter 19) or an external synth fed via the track’s output routing ( see Chapter 15). A MIDI clip in Live contains notes and controller data for playing a MIDI instrument.
