A tip for any Sonarite trying studio one midi editing for the first time.

thepianist65
As usual, I cannot find the obvious, can the OP explain or screen shot where you can change the velocity or other midi values from percentage to 1-128. I cannot seem to find the lower right corner of the controller pane, nor can I find an explanation in the help files. Oh, geez, whatta struggle, but I'm really liking what I'm learning so far.
Thanks. hopefully by the time you respond I will have (finally) found this on my own.
 
AND I DID, thanks, disregard my post...never mind...

Jeff Evans
Most of you are not well informed about its midi capability.  Yes it is not as deep as say Logic, Cubase or Sonar but it still deep.  I do a serious amount of midi editing using external hardware too and in that regard it excels. Midi timing is exceptional in Studio One with external instruments, the midi timing is independent of how hard the audio side of the program is working.  It is always rock solid to the click.  Its ability to capture nuances with timing playing live for example is also excellent.  The scale operations are variable in how you see and use them. 
 
The other thing is the midi operations are deep and advanced and many may not have all the knowledge about them and where they are located.  It took me a while to find everything about the midi operations.  A great video to watch is Recording and Editing with Midi in the Groove 3 collection. 
 
There is stuff it cannot do e.g. SYSEX being one of them and no event list for example. (I use Sonar for that!)  We are hopeful that the midi side will get advancements over time.  The other thing most of you are forgetting too and that is the program is young and will most likely get very extended midi functions and operations over time.  But right now it can do a huge amount anyway.  I control 10 external devices as well as virtual instruments. It does not have instrument definitions but that is not big deal if you are someone who is changing the patch memories around a lot in your instruments which is what I do all the time.
 
It can do some amazing things like loop record and jump midi tracks on the fly and it will add data in while live loop recording.  Something Sonar cannot even hope to do.  You can open up the PRV and erase notes too all on the fly while recording. With hardware you can set up a test to determine hardware latency of each instrument you own. Then you can advance or delay midi tracks by millisecond increments to adjust for super fine timing etc.. You can edit multiple midi tracks at once with ease.  We have Note Fx now. You can chop a long midi part into smaller events and apply different Note Fx on each section. Tons of quantising options. On the way in, after recording. Groove matching all possible.  Melodyne will convert audio to midi then you create things from there. Live music can be tempo mapped with ease now and dragged straight in to the tempo time line.  Midi stuff can be overdubbed after that so you are working on the grid.  But you can still play live against the grid on a tempo mapped piece.

sonarman1

Other than these handy extra features (which I hope will be implemented soon in S!) is there any way S1 is inferior to these daws in terms of core midi editing? With my so far little experience I find the midi editing as good as others.