Other functions

Indicate Transpositions

When you transpose your music, you may sometimes want to visually compare the original sounds and the transposed music. For MIDI parts, you can check this by opening the Key Editor and clicking the “Indicate Transpositions” button. This will help you see how your MIDI notes will be transposed. If the button is activated, the Key Editor will show the note pitch you will hear, if it is deactivated, the Key Editor shows the original pitch of the notes in your MIDI part. By default, the “Indicate Transpositions” button is deactivated.

The Global Transpose setting

If you are working with drum and percussion loops or with special effects (FX) loops, you normally want to exclude these events from being transposed. This can be achieved by locking them using the Global Transpose setting. Proceed as follows:

1.Open your project.

2.Select the desired event or part and set the “Global Transpose” setting on the info line to “Independent”.

A symbol will be displayed in the upper right corner of the selected part or event. This indicates that the part or event will not be transposed neither by changing the root key nor by specifying transpose events.

A MIDI part as originally recorded.

When you activate “Indicate Transpositions” you will see how your MIDI part will be transposed.

If Global Transpose is set to Independent, the selected part will not be transposed.

3. You can now change the project root key.

The “Independent” parts or events will not be affected by the root key changes.

Ö If you import ready-made parts or events that are tagged drums or FX, Global Transpose will be automatically set to Independent.

If you record audio or MIDI, Global Transpose will be set to “Independent”, if the transpose track exists and you have specified at least one transpose event (even when the transpose value is not defined). In this case, your recording will sound exactly the way you played it. The transpose events will not be taken into account during recording and the recorded event will not get the project root key. Have a look at the following example:

1.Set up a project with the root key in C.

2.Add a transpose track and enter transpose events with the values 0, 5, 7 and 0.

3.Record some chords with your MIDI keyboard. For our example, record C, F, G and C.

The transpose events are not taken into account and the result of your recording will be C, F, G and C. The root key will be not set.

Ö You will get exactly what you have recorded, i.e. when your record C, F, G and C this will be played back exactly as you recorded it. This is because the recorded event is “Independent” from Global Transpose.

If no transpose track exists or if no transpose event has been added, Global Transpose will be set to Follow.

If Global Transpose is set to Follow, the selected part will follow all global transpositions.

The Edit Lock on the Transpose track

If you want to prevent your transpose events from being changed by mistake, you can activate the Lock button on the transpose track. This way, you will not be able to move your transpose events or change their transpose values.

Mute transpose events

Sometimes it might be useful to disable the transpose track, e.g. to hear the original sound of individual tracks. If you activate the mute button on the transpose track, your transpose events will not be taken into account during playback.

2. Add a transpose track and create a transpose event.

By default, the transpose value is set to 0.

3. Make sure that the “Keep Transpose in Octave Range” button is activated on the transpose track and change the transpose value of the transpose event.

Your chord will be transposed upwards or downwards according to the entered values.