The In-Line MIDI Editing Thread

A score editor????? Hehe.. yeah that would be useful and I'm sure it must be on the big Cockos list! :D Hope you see the benefits of the inline editor in the meantime - I've sometimes thought "why would I need that?" about REAPER features that I ended up using a lot. Back to Inline talk - I was wondering whether a feint octave number behind the piano note part on the very left might be useful to have any idea of which octave you're in before adding notes to an empty item. Obviously as with the piano graphic it would be overwritten by data at the very start of the item but it would certainly give a good start point to know where you are on the grid!

Either mode, you only need to click once, if you add a tiny right drag to it... For drums it's easier to use the one-click, but I am too often inserting false notes, so I became used to that tiny swipe very quick and when programming note length anyway it's far easier in that mode. Ooh, while playing with this, I found a bug... this swipe insert is broken in diamond and triangle views, it will insert the note a grid early. I'm off to the bugs thread.

What's cool? Having inline midi saves having to open a separate editor for minor edits if I ever need them (which is all I do as I rarely touch the piano roll) What's not? You can see why Sonar has a magnifier - everything is too tiny unless I really expand the track E to open = more invisible features (needs a button or something) Why does just clicking on a note delete it? I keep losing notes just auditioning them

I can't find any way to open an inline mid editor, I had "E" assigned to external editor, which is what it does. Does that mean I 'm stuffed then? ;)

Naah, just search for 'inline' in the action list. Open is in the Main section, close is in the MIDI editor section, so you can also assign both to the same key. :) EDIT: I'd definitely like to have "whole track" inline editing, too. Though the item based editing seems to be also cool, I am still longing for just printing notes and controllers anywhere freely on the track. Reaper needs an item to contain notes? It could create one as soon as I create a note outside of other item borders. Gets complicated when it comes to takes and free item positions, though... I guess I'm just throwing out ideas here.

wow, I have never experienced inline editing. I think its pretty cool actually. Really for velocity tweaks or any other CC tweak. I dont think I would use it for composition...but aligning and tweaking. Thanks guys, this is swell.

It's a good first step. It definitely needs to automatically expand the track height when you activate it since that's the point of activating it, to edit the notes. E should expand and when you go back to normal it should go back to the height it was before. I think they'll tweak it up for sure. :) Cool. P.S. Each individual midi track should remember it's track height(s) for in-place so when you toggle them they are optimized for editing (where you sized them in in-place).

Woohoo! This has been the single feature that Reaper has lacked for me, and now it's here! For my purposes, the main reason I would ever open a MIDI editor is to fix mistakes in keyboard performances, especially timing with other instruments...so being able to quickly line up a MIDI event with a peak in an audio track, or a MIDI event on another track, is absolutely essential. If Reaper's reputation for constant updates is any consideration, I'm sure that the inline editor will catch up feature-wise. But for now, I only need it to do one thing: move notes around. Good, this means I will have this in time to track keyboards for my new project! Thanks, Cockos!