UTILITIES
The following plugins make changes and corrections quickly, sparing composer's time efficiently.
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You can turn a chord to a pattern and a pattern to a chord:
One can change from a selection of notes only the ones that have a certain pitch, duration or velocity:
Sometimes you will need to move a selection to a precise position. Use 'Change Position', 'Copy to Position' and 'Change Position Displace' for displacements with a certain amount of measures, beats and ticks:
Changing the MIDI channel is also needed sometimes.
Cakewalk gives the possibility to change velocities but if you prefer to control them in a sequence of selected notes, you can do that with 'CrescendoDescrescendo':
You can change the duration of all the notes in a selection to a chosen duration:
You can also "glue" several notes to a single one.
'Go To' moves the cursor, which is useful when you want to paste a selection of notes, for example.
You can get an arpeggiated, harp-like sound from a chord with 'HarpArp':
One often wishes to change the octave of each note in a selection.
Or change gradually the duration of the notes in a selection with 'ShorterLonger'.
'Tremolo' will divide each note of a selection to notes with the duration that you choose.
Or divide each note to a chosen denominator:
You can also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEMZtdThKs8&list=PL9kZCaVeUxOfRUeTIDEEI8fYPy7OdPZzI&index=6