Note text

"Note text" is a way to define notes by text. "Note text" notes are placed in the "Note text" sub-track.

Examples:

• C-3 defines the note C at octave 3
• F#4 defines the note F sharp at octave 4

The "Note text" sub-track is visible by default. To hide or show the "Note text" sub-track:

1. Move mouse pointer inside the track you want to edit.
2. Right-click to open the popup menu.
3. Toggle the "Note text" entry.

Create/Delete note

• Create note:
  1. Press Ctrl + F5 to give keyboard focus to the editor.
  2. Press Esc, if necessary, to enable Editing mode. Editing mode is enabled when the cursor is Blue
  3. Press various keys on the keyboard to add notes:
     • Z is C, S is C#, X is D, and so forth.
     • Press F1 to select octave down.
     • Press F2 to select octave up.
     Note that locale setting is ignored when adding notes. Radium always uses a QWERTY keyboard for note editing.
     
  4. You can also add notes by sending MIDI. Configure MIDI input devices under MIDI -> Midi Preferences -> Input ports
• Delete note:
  1. Move cursor above note.
  2. Press Del

Insert/delete lines

• Insert lines in current track:
  • Press Backspace to delete 1 line.
  • Press Left Alt + Backspace to insert 1 line.
• Insert lines in all tracks:
  • Press Shift + Return to insert or delete 1 line.
  • Press Left Alt + Up to delete 1 line.
  • Press Left Alt + Down to insert 1 line.

Selection vs. range

There are two ways to select notes:

1. Selection in the pianoroll.
2. Ranged notes in the note-text subtrack (called "range").

If there is no range in the current block, all functions operating on a range will instead work on the selected notes in the current track.

Differences between selection and range:

• A range is all notes within the "range-rectangle" (spanning both lines and tracks), while a selection is all notes that has been selected.
• Selection and range don't share the same clipboard buffer.
• While selection operates on a track, a range operates on a block.

Range

• To create range:
  1. Press Left Win/Cmd + Z to cancel current range, if necessary.
  2. Move cursor to the upper left corner of the range you want to create.
  3. Press Left Win/Cmd + B
  4. Move cursor to the lower right corner of the range you want to create.
  5. Press Left Win/Cmd + B again.
• To copy range: Press Left Win/Cmd + C
• To cut range: Press Left Win/Cmd + X
• To paste range: Press Left Win/Cmd + V

Finetuning and other mouse operations

See Mouse