Is there a way to edit note lengths/velocities/CCs/etc. at once on multiple layers of MIDI tracks?

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Let’s say I have three MIDI tracks playing the same thing and I want to ramp up the velocity on all of them equally at the same time. When I open them all up together and select all the layers then adjust the velocity, it only adjusts the topmost one. Same for CC info.

This is essential for fast editing, and I’m hoping there’s a way I’m just missing to edit those values all at once without having to go to each separate layer in the editing stack and copy/pasting.

Creating a PLE is not the answer because that is highly limited since it limits you to specific adjustments only, whereas what I’m talking about is being able to adjust MIDi layers note lengths/velocities/CCs/etc. instantly together by hand, on the fly.

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Hi,

You can select MIDI Notes of multiple MIDI Parts at once in the Key Editor. The edits, which you make either in the Info Line or in the “Piano Roll” part, are applied to all selected MIDI Notes. But the edits, which you make in the Controller Lane are applied to the active MIDI Part only.

That means, you can’t edit the MIDI CCs of multiple MIDI Parts at once. Only the active MIDI Part is editable for the MIDI CCs.

As a workaround, you can have multiple MIDI Parts on one MIDI Tracks in the Track Lanes. So you could use:

  • Lane 1 for MIDI Notes
  • Lane 2 for MIDI CCs.

You can make the Shared Copy of the MIDI Part in Lane 2 (i.e. your MIDI CCs) and put this copy to another track. Then, once you change the MIDI data in one of the shared copy, these data will follow in the other shared copy MIDI Part.

You can even create 3 lanes:

  • Lane 1 for MIDI Notes
  • Lane 2 for shared MIDI CCs.
  • Lane 3 for exclusive MIDI CCs.
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Hi Martin,
how do you make a shared copy ?

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I wish I could recommend the manual, but the section about Shared Copies has a very limited answer to your question.

There are modifier keys you can hold down while copying a part:

Look at “Drag & Drop”.

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