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- [Instructor] Once we have a MIDI event on our timeline

we will likely want to adapt it in some way.

This isn't always necessary,

but there will be occasions when this is required.

So this is what I'm going to do.

I've got a new MIDI event on my timeline there,

and I've placed it on the track labeled as Grand 3.

Here it is stretching over a few bars,

in fact eight bars in total.

I'm going to start playback

by clicking the play button up here

so that you can hear what this sounds like.

Have a listen.

(stirring piano music)

Okay, as we saw there during playback

we can watch the animated virtual keyboard on our VSTI,

in this case The Grand,

playing the notes that are contained within this MIDI event.

Right, let's look at what we can do

when we want to edit this MIDI event.

Now to be honest, there is no real problem

with this MIDI event,

but I want to show you the process

or at least the functionality available to us

when we want to edit any MIDI event.

If we come to the MIDI menu button we will see that

in that top section there are a number

of different MIDI editor options.

I'm going to choose the top option Open Key Editor.

And once open this editor, the Key Editor,

displays like this.

We have a virtual keyboard

running vertically up the left-hand side

and all the MIDI notes contained within the MIDI event

are displayed horizontally stretching left to right.

We can click

(disjointed piano music) on the virtual keyboard

to play any of these notes.

If the display is too small for you by the way,

come over to the bottom right,

where you will see these very small drag sliders

that allow us to click on them

and drag up or down to zoom in or zoom out

on the notes contained within the MIDI event here.

And once we zoom in we get to see the notes listed

with the actual note value superimposed over the top.

And each time

(F3 key music) we click on a note

we get to hear (C3 key music)

that particular note played back.

I'm going

(A2 key music) to start playback again

so that you can see and hear how these notes reflect

what is actually being played by the MIDI event.

(stirring piano music)

What is useful to us and we are using the editor here

is each time we manually select one of the notes

we get to see MIDI attributes,

or it's up here.

For example, with this note, (F3 key music)

labeled as F3,

we see across here start and end points,

the actual length of the note,

the pitch, which we know is F3, and also the MIDI velocity.

In this case for this one note

this will play back at a velocity of 72,

and this note labeled C3, (C3 key music)

plays at a velocity of 65.

This lower note labeled as A2,

(A2 key music) also has a velocity of 65.

However, moving just to the right,

we see this second note of A2 (A2 key music)

registering a 69 for its velocity.

Clearly if we wanted to edit

any of these velocities we could do that.

I'm not going to but you can see that's possible.

For this example you can see that

we could just simply double-click on the velocity value

and change it to something different.

As I say I'm not going to, but you can try that out.

Now, another way of editing the velocity

or the volume of these notes

is by coming down to this controller lane

running horizontally across the foot of the user interface.

At present it is set to Velocity

and that is why we can roll over any of these vertical lines

and change the velocity.

The lower the vertical line is within the controller lane,

the quieter it will play back,

and conversely the higher it is,

it means the velocity of the note will be louder.

I'll quickly adapt these first few notes

(rapid piano key music) by rolling over them,

clicking, and dragging up or down,

to increase or decrease the playback volume.

There are other controller options available to us

simply by coming down here

and clicking to the right of the word Velocity,

and using the menu to change to display a different type

of MIDI controller value.

These other controller values, to be fair,

are beyond the scope of this introduction to Cubase.

So I'm going to let you have an explore

how these adapt the sound of the note playback

as you become more confident with Cubase.