Making music has never been easier. With numerous MIDI improvements and enhancements, you can fix and finesse every note to perfection, from transposing and trimming notes with the arrow keys, to building chords and scores faster than ever before.

Arrow keys editing, transpose in-key

MIDI tab-to-note

Extract chords from MIDI clips

With Pro Tools shortcuts built around the arrow keys you can now easily transpose...

Use the Up and Down arrows to transpose a note up or down by a semi-tone

Use Shift and the Up and Down arrows to transpose a note up or down by an octave

Use Control on a Mac, or Start on Windows, together with the Up and Down arrows to transpose a note up or down in key with Pro Tools using the key information set on the Key Ruler.

You can also use variants of these shortcuts to create chords quickly and easily. If you add Option on a Mac, or Alt on Windows, to the Transpose in Key shortcut, because the Alt/Option key creates a copy as you move the note and so you can build up chords quickly and easily.

There are also new shortcuts for trimming MIDI notes...

Use Control on a Mac, or Start on Windows, together with the Left and Right arrows to trim the start of the note by the grid value.

Use Option on a Mac, or Alt on Windows, together with the Left and Right arrows to trim the end of the note by the grid value.

If you add the Shift key to either of these keyboard Shortcuts will move the start or end by the next highest grid value, without having to change the selected grid value.

Another set of shortcuts added in Pro Tools 2018.1 are the ability to adjust the velocity of selected MIDI Notes...

Use Command on a Mac, or Control on Windows together with the Up and Down arrows to increase or decrease the note's velocity by 5.

Use Shift and Command on a Mac, or Shift and Control on Windows, together with the Up and Down arrows to increase or decrease the note's velocity by 15.

Finally now in Pro Tools 2018 you can extract chord progressions from a MIDI clip selection. This feature is designed to be a helpful way to identify chords based on the performance on an instrument or MIDI track. These extracted chord progressions are then displayed in the Chord Ruler and so are designed to eliminate the need to enter chords into the chord ruler or score editor.

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