Viewing Note Data

Open the Graphic Editor window by double-clicking the new track name you just entered. Notice the Graphic Editor window for Track 1 now displays the note data you recorded. Notice some of the other attributes of the Graphic editor window:

  • MIDI Notes are displayed graphically as black bars (or in color according to Channel or Selection, if you have a color monitor), and their duration is shown by the length of the bar.

  • When the Graphic Editor window is in Notes display, the Audible Keyboard to the left of the piano roll lets you quickly see the note’s pitch. When you click a key on the Audible Keyboard, Metro plays that note on the track’s currently assigned Output.

  • If you position the cursor over the Audible Keyboard or over a particular note, you’ll see that, in the upper left of the window, the Current Cursor Position display shows the selected note’s pitch as well as the Bar/Beat/Clock location of the cursor.

Now let’s try Playing Back the Track.

Viewing Note Data