How to set MIDI note lengths before drawing

Cubase
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Hi,

I’m using the pencil tool (Alt and click) to draw MIDI notes in Pro 9.5 key editor and it’s automatically drawing notes that are a whole bar in length.

Very grateful if anyone can advise how to change the default note length.

Thanks

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The default length will be the same as whatever your grid/snap is set to. So select a shorter value in the drop-down menu.

The easiest thing to do is to set it to the shortest length note in your piece. For example if set to 1/8 note then you can draw notes of any length that is a multiple of an 1/8th.

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Thanks,

but I can’t see the grid snap option on the window or at least there isn’t an option to change snap type in the editor window that I can see.

Wanted to post a screenshot but can’t figure that out either!

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You will probably need to reveal Length Quantise. This recent topic covers the same area:

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Sorted !!

Thank you, that was frustrating!