I'm not very familiar with using the Staff view, but when I enter notes from my keyboard, I wind up with notes of varying lengths depending of course on how long I hold the key down. The anal part of my brain hates this... Is there a way, after the fact, of selecting a group of notes in PRV and setting them all to quarter notes, or eighth notes, etc? Or can this be done in the staff view? Somehow, I've gotten it into my head that the sample libraries I use (eg, EastWest Orchestra Gold) are happier and sound better when the notes are set to real musical time.

As always, thanks for any an all suggestions. You guys are the best!

Rob


EDIT: Yes, Event Inspector does it all! Thanks, Scott and FBB and, of course all others who chimed in!

In PRV you can lasso the offending notes and drag one end to make them all smaller at the same time.
There maybe other ways.

Rob, you can also select the notes you want to change and use quantize to quarter note, but select only "length" in the quantize window. 
 
 
Ron
 

The event inspector is made for this. Select the notes and in the event inspector change the duration there.

I've got a CAL routine that does just that.  You select the notes and then the CAL routine changes them all to whatever you like: Whole, Half, Quarter, Eighth, Sixteenth and Thirty Second.

The Event Inspector works nicely for this task. Check out this free video for more info...

* Cakewalk SONAR: Event Inspector Editing
http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/video.asp?ID=7

Scott

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Thanks, guys... I think Ron hit on what I'm looking for. The problem with the Event Inspector is that you're working with a single note at a time, I would want to select a whole lot of notes... for example, if I use a Double Bass Pizzicato for my bass and it's used for the entire piece... and secondly... what is the "duration" of a quarter note? Is there a chart somewhere that translates an eighth note into time?

Scott, I love your books. Looking forward to your X2 powerbook!  I'll check out the video, and also Ron's idea about quantizing.

Thanks all.

M_Glenn_M


In PRV you can lasso the offending notes and drag one end to make them all smaller at the same time.
There maybe other ways.

Yeah, this may work for me too. I'll need to experiment with the "snap to" function 


Thanks!

The problem with the Event Inspector is that you're working with a single note at a time, I would want to select a whole lot of notes... for example,

I think you may be thinking of the "Event List", a view, and a completely different animal to the "Event inspector" which is a module in the control bar.

The Event Inspector affects any selected note all in one go and can either change things by absolute values, such as a setting the notes to a quarter or can be used to adjust data relatively. i.e. Selecting notes and entering 50% will reduce all selected notes by half. So a whole note becomes a half, a half note a quarter, etc. etc.

Very powerful and easy to use.

rcrees

Scott, I love your books. Looking forward to your X2 powerbook!  I'll check out the video, and also Ron's idea about quantizing.

Thanks, Robert! The book will soon be here. 


Also, like FBB said, the Event Inspector can be used on a selection of multiple notes as well. Check out the video... it explains it in detail.


Scott

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