Editing MIDI in Piano Roll View using a midi Keyboard

Hello! I would like to ask this: Let's suppose that we already have recorded a melody in an intrument or midi track, using our midi keyboard. Then we open the Piano Roll View and see our recorded midi notes. If I click with my mouse on one of these notes, this note becomes chosen and its color becomes a little darker. My problem starts here: If I press a note on my midi keyboard, the chosen note in the Piano Roll View doesn't changes at all! So, if I want to change the recorded notes in the Piano Roll View (for example, to change a DO to FA), I can't use my midi keyboard, and I have to do it manualy (note by note using my mouse, the pencil etc) which is time-consuming and boring, or I have to record the melody again! I wonder why my midi keyboard (which works perfectly with instrument and midi tracks) can't affect the notes in the PRV.

Mr Beagle, thanks for the reply. I have tried the methods that you mention, but they still are time-consuming. A friend of mine showed that his Cubase has above its corresponding Piano Roll View a little button called "midi in". If we have this button pressed, then, if we click on a note in Cubase's Piano Roll View and then press a note on the midi keyboard, the note in PRV changes automatickly and the next note becomes automatickly chosen. With this method we can change all the next notes in Cubase's PRV automatickly and fast, just by using our midi Keyboard. I wonder if Sonar X1 has a similar choice hidden somewhere.

nope, sonar doesn't do that.  it sounds like a good feature, tho, so submit a feature request.

I didn't realize that worked, K, but it's still pretty clunky compared to what the OP is describing in cubase.

You can change the note with a midi keyboard in the event list.   So, if i need to do this I will select the note in the Piano View.. so when I open the event list the note I'm changing already is highlighted.   I have the event list pop-up with a "key-binded" note.   I use to do all my midi editing in the event list,  'cause when i started Piano Views had not been invented yet. 

I used to do all my editing this way, too, back in the Pleistocene, but you have to double-click the Note value in the Event List to make it editable before it will respond to the keyboard. So it's not much better that just double-clicking in the PRV to open Note properties and tabbing once to the pitch field.


I could see some value in being able to enter pitch changes from the keyboard directly, but in the time it takes to click on the note in the PRV to give it focus, you could just drag it to the new pitch, rather than dropping your mouse to hit a note on the keyboard. Conceivably you could do all the keyboarding with you left hand while mousing with your right, but that could get awkward on a full-size keyboard when editing a right-hand part.

I'm not 100% sure because I don't use it personally but wouldn't step record do something like the OP wants? You'd have the track armed for record with overwrite as the record option, step set up as required and then use the keyboard to do the editing.

That would work wouldn't it?

The problem in using a MIDI keyboard (or any other controller for that matter) in PRV mode would be how to handle multiple selected notes?  Would they all change to the entered NOTE on the controller? 

If the code worked when only ONE note was selected, this could be a time saver but with the time it takes to select one note you might as well slide it in PRV no, rather than hit a controller note...

Me, I don't see a big time saver in this method.  Perhaps there are some other ideas on how this could be implemented?

Jim