

NOTE: Deselect ' Only one' at the top of the menu to avoid the tool reverting to single note mode after the first stamp. Stamp tool - Add predefined chords selected from the menu that opens when this tool is clicked. NOTE: There is a Global Snap selector on the Snap Panel. Piano roll Snap - Snap determines how Notes will move and quantization aligns events relative to the background grid (Hold Alt to temporarily set snap to 'none'). Main Menu - Includes: Edit, Tools, View, Snap, Select, Group, Zoom, Time Marker, Clip Source, Performance Mode, playhead and Detach options. Toolbar icons - Along the top of the Piano roll window:.Time Markers - When set to type Pattern length (Right-Click a marker) Time Markers will define the length of the currently selected Pattern.Mouse-wheel tools - Change tools by holding right click and rolling the wheel.Mouse-wheel velocity - Use Mouse-wheel while holding notes to change velocity.Glue notes - Place the cursor between 2 neighbor notes, so the resize cursor appears, then click and hold to glue them.Cycle slide/porta - Click and hold when adding a note to cycle through slide & porta event modes.Copy note: Hold on an existing note to copy it.Click-and-hold - Beware the ' F10 > General Settings > Click-and-hold functions in piano roll' option on the General settings tab.You can roll your mouse-wheel while hovering over the control to show Channels with notes OR hold ( Ctrl+Mouse-wheel) to show used and unused Channels. Channels with notes, in the currently selected Pattern, will display a tick. Target Channel - Select a Channel with the drop-down menu, in the title bar, to select for editing.Some Global snap settings will also quantize live input recording from a MIDI controller. Selecting Main will use the Global Snap value. Resolution can also change with Zoom when Snap is set to Line. Scroll speed will slow when snap settings other than ' Line' are used. Resolution / grid - The smaller grid each bar is divided into are set by the window's snap ( ) setting.The number on the Piano roll's top-ruler are bars (groups of beats). Duration - The horizontal length represents time.Pitch - is mapped from bottom (low) to top (high).Preview Channels by Left-clicking the Preview Keyboard keys. Slides are shown as horizontal bars with a small triangle drawn in the right side. Notes - are displayed as horizontal bars.To set a custom color, ( Right-click) it. To change the selected Note Color ( Left-click) the color selector. NOTES: You can click the ( Middle-Mouse-Button) and drag in the Piano roll to scroll vertically and horizontally at the same time. Note data can be entered manually with the editing tools or recorded in from 'live' MIDI controllers, then edited to fix mistakes or make changes. The resolution of the grid is user-selectable (zoomable) and allows the composition of songs with unlimited complexity. This is the exact principle as paper ' Piano rolls' used to automate player-pianos in former times. Note pitch is displayed on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis. There are a number of useful tools to help with complex score editing and other manipulations as described below. The Piano roll sends note and automation data to plugin instruments associated with the Piano roll's Channel. Also, it is said that as pianos became more widely used, a brighter keyboard was simply more preferable.FL Studio's Piano roll has the well deserved reputation as the best Piano roll in the business.

Why this happened is not well understood, but because visually, the color white stands out while the color black recedes into the background, the reason is said to be because making the half-tone keys that stick out black presents an image of stability to the eye. However, when pianos became the dominant keyboard instrument in the 19th century, somewhere along the line, the positional relationship between black and white switched. They were the opposite of the white/black arrangement that predominates today. This was true not only for pianos, but also for the keyboards of organs and cembalos of the time. But, on pianos dating from the 18th century when Mozart was alive, the colors of the keys was exactly reversed: the white keys were black and the black keys were white. On modern piano keyboards, the seven "natural" notes of each octave are the white keys and the five half-tones are black keys in between.
