![]() Both have specific options on how you'd like them to act. At a basic level, Thin Out Notes will delete randomly or musically chosen notes to calm down a busy section, while Fill With Notes will do the opposite, throwing in a bunch of extra notes to increase the complexity of the clip. This is the new Fill With Notes dialogue.Two more functions can operate hand-in-hand, depending on your approach. Selecting one of the new Actions brings up a dialogue box containing various options, which disappears once you click OK to apply the Action. ![]() None of this affects the start point of the note. The three parameters have range and strength levels so you can get in there and hone your randomisation possibilities. Randomisation can be applied to pitch, velocity and note length, with an option to shuffle the notes about and also a handy Apply Scale tick box if you want to keep things musically meaningful. What it doesn't do is add random notes to the piano roll rather, it applies a randomisation algorithm to existing notes to mould their parameters. This offers a remarkable number of options and controls over something that's supposed to be random, the aim being to allow us to apply some limitation to the chaos for more pleasing results. Studio One v4.5 also introduces a comprehensive Randomise Notes function. At the same time, though, its decisions are not always particularly musical, and it will happily put notes over the top of each other to achieve its single-minded aims. What's interesting about it is that as you experiment with the percentages, you discover new rhythms and timings that conventional quantisation or swing would never have found. Distribute Notes does not affect pitch rather, it's a sort of timing quantisation where you select a percentage by which the notes will be affected and Studio One tries to distribute them evenly in time. The Distribute Notes option is part of what's becoming an exciting move into automatic melody-generating functions, where a logical formula is applied to notes to adjust their position in some way. You can flip notes vertically or horizontally, or both at the same time to send chords and melodies all over the place. If you choose all the notes in a clip, you'll find this a good way of flipping the entire section. ![]() The new Mirror Notes function will 'reflect' notes around either the first, middle or last note of those selected, or some other note of your choice. Maybe you could improve on that by allocating it a keyboard shortcut or Macro button. The only slight annoyance is that the Apply Scale action should really be a button next to the scale selector because, at the moment, every time you change the scale you then have to reāopen the menu and click Apply Scale again. If you want to know what your track would sound like in C# rather than E, or in mixolydian or minor pentatonic, well, now you can. The Apply Scale action does precisely that: it nudges the selected notes to the nearest note in the chosen scale and mode, allowing you to try out all sorts of different scales and modes on your MIDI parts. Useful, I guess, but until now, there have never been any pitch quantisation options to pull the notes into that scale. You could select the key and type of scale, whereupon little blue markers would appear on the piano roll to show you which notes are in that scale. What strikes me as strange is that, until now, this scale hasn't really had anything other than a visual function. It takes the scale that you can define over on the left of the piano roll, and applies it to selected notes. We'll kick off with Apply Scale, which seems like a simple enough function. In this workshop, I'm going to take a closer look at the new MIDI functions that adorn the redesigned Action menu in the piano-roll editor. In May, PreSonus released version 4.5 of Studio One, a major update that includes over 70 new features and enhancements, and is entirely free to all existing owners of version 4. The new MIDI Note Actions introduced in Studio One 4.5 offer intriguing creative possibilities. ![]() The new MIDI Note Actions are accessed from the Action menu.
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