PT Midi - Quick Delete Notes with Pencil tool?

[JayB]

Hey guys , I've searched everywhere and cannot find an answer for this one. How do you quickly delete notes with the pencil tool in PT? I know you can double click each note , but that can take forever! Isn't there a way to just click and drag and erase all notes you hover over with the pencil tool? For programmed drums it would help so much , and I am almost positive I've done this before in PT, but I do not remember how.

 

[::XeS::]

Double click on the note

 

[JayB]

Yeah , as I said above I know that you can double click on the note but that takes forever to get rid of a lot of double bass etc. I want to remove for instance just kick and snare from the section without highlighting and deleting all the drums. I want to leave the cymbals , so is there any way to just scroll over the kick and snare only and delete just those?

 

[JayB]

cmon I know someone knows

 

[JayB]

nevermind I figured out you can use the grabber tool to highlight and delete specific notes

 

[greyskull]

Thats the one.
i generally use the multitool and just use modifer keys for the other functions.
Works well for me.

 

[jeid]

Pretty sure if you press alt when using the pencil, it changes to the rubber end of the pencil. I was using that the other day.

 

[JayB]

Pretty sure if you press alt when using the pencil, it changes to the rubber end of the pencil. I was using that the other day.

about to try this now ! I was just gonna come on here and say that while the grabber tool does work for copying specific notes , it also erases any other notes (like cymbals) that you had in that spot when you paste

 

[JayB]

jeid , you are a badass. That alt click eraser trick works ! THANK YOU!

 

[barricade]

Alt+pencil/hand tool work also on markers,automation,etc...!

 

[jeid]

jeid , you are a badass. That alt click eraser trick works ! THANK YOU!

Haha, it was pure chance. I sometimes press buttons and I figure stuff out.

The other day I found out selecting a whole lot of channels and pressing alt/shift then solo or mute, will only solo or mute those channels. Think it works on stuff like output etc as well.

glad to have helped

 

[Jordon]

I didn't see this specifically mentioned, so I'm sorry if everyone already knows this one, but when editing MIDI, if for instance you have a whole drum beat programmed out, but you want to delete all of the kicks, you can highlight all of them by clicking their corresponding note on the piano roll.

Run-on sentence fail.