Ableton Midi notes driving me insane.

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Ableton Midi notes driving me insane.

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Ok, here's something I could do with sorting out as it's driving me crazy.

Let's say I draw a midi clip in 16th notes and apply a groove to it with a bit of swing. All good! Then say I decide I want to move certain 16th notes to another midi note on the piano roll, say from C3 to D3 for example. Why is this so difficult? I have snap to grid on but the note can move freely from left to right and because of the sensitivity of my mouse, I try like crazy to just notch it up to whatever note I want without it sliding left or right and when it does slide left or right, whatever note is next to it, disappears. What's going on?
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could try:

- changing sensitivity of your mouse (system preferences on your computer)
- copying/pasting the MIDI note while leaving the original note where it was; then delete the original note once you have
the "new" note in place
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Select note and then arrow up for one seminote, or shift+arrow up to jump up one octave
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I'll try the arrow thing. Just crazy why moving a note up one semitone is so difficult at times. I really do hate the midi in Ableton Live, it's very poor by other daw standards. Even FL has miles better. Thanks will try that
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I'd love to hear more about what you're looking to do.
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MiyaMushino wrote:I'd love to hear more about what you're looking to do.
Move midi notes around the piano roll without them moving left to right like I was saying. Once I apply a quantizing option, like a swing or whatever and wish to move notes around, they are all too easy to accidently nudge left or right. But that's just repeating what I already said so maybe I dunno what you mean?
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Im using the arrow keys now anyway which is a lot better
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