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By Dazzer1234567 Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:58 am
Hi folks,

There's a couple of basic things i didn't yet manage to do, hopefully someone has some pointers for me:

I'm on MPC X standalone.

#1: when editing the midi grid, how do you delete a note? Is the only way to grab the eraser tool and click on it? Please tell me there's also a way to do it with a button on the MPC!

#2: With the velocity sliders screen expanded, is there a way to show only one note, like C3? Because when you've got a lot of notes on your grid, this view gets kinda cluttered.

#3: is there any way to select multiple notes in the grid other then using the rubber band? For example, say you have a 4-to-the floor-kick, but you only want select kicks on the 1, 2 & 4, is there any way to do that? I was kinda hoping shift + select would do it, but no dice.

Many thanks!
By 40Beatz Thu Feb 11, 2021 11:13 am
My advice....work with Grid Edit and List Edit. List is Not Graphical but it can help you get things accomplished faster
By Hideous mutant Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:33 pm
#1
Select notes either with marquee-tool or poke the keyboard on the left, hold shift and press cut on the screen.
#2
Select notes either with marquee-tool or poke the keyboard on the left and they'll be highlighted in the velocity panel/subscreen. If you have some notes that have more velocity than the rest, you can also select them in the velocity lane.
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By Lampdog Thu Feb 11, 2021 5:11 pm
Double tap note.

No.

No.
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By 83dude Thu Feb 11, 2021 5:57 pm
Dazzer1234567 wrote:#2: With the velocity sliders screen expanded, is there a way to show only one note, like C3? Because when you've got a lot of notes on your grid, this view gets kinda cluttered.


Been there. If you really only want to change a single note‘s velocity I‘d suggest selecting it, tapping VELOCITY on the screen (bottom right) and using the data dial.

EDIT: Added some grammar. :Sigh:
Last edited by 83dude on Thu Feb 11, 2021 7:33 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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By Lampdog Thu Feb 11, 2021 6:52 pm
83dude wrote:Been there. If you really only want to change a single note‘s velocity I‘d suggest selecting it, tapping VELOCITY on the screen (bottom right) and use the data dial.


Yep, no entering velocity screen, no clutter, you can see the value appear in the middle bottom of the screen.
By Dazzer1234567 Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:48 pm
Thanks all!

About shift + select: the weird thing is, if you're in PC mode, you can actually press shift on your computer keyboard and select notes multiple times by rubber-banding on the hardware screen!! But it doesn't work with the hardware shift button.

That's kinda nutty, it's something one might often need to do!
By wavejockey Fri Feb 12, 2021 9:12 am
i've requested that feature (select non-consecutive notes/events) multiple times @ AKAI support, no avail
By Dazzer1234567 Sat Feb 13, 2021 12:07 am
wavejockey wrote:i've requested that feature (select non-consecutive notes/events) multiple times @ AKAI support, no avail


Hmmmm, seems trivial to implement .......
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By Monotremata Sat Feb 13, 2021 12:16 am
Dazzer1234567 wrote:
wavejockey wrote:i've requested that feature (select non-consecutive notes/events) multiple times @ AKAI support, no avail


Hmmmm, seems trivial to implement .......



This is Akai we're talking about here.. When people began complaining about the MIDI issues it used to have this is the same dev team that didn't think anyone would want incoming MIDI actually split to different channels heh.