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Editing the Rhythms of Notes
With Composer, you can edit the rhythms of notes, as displayed in the score, independently of how they are actually performed during playback. This way, you can preserve the "feeling" of your original live recording of the notes, or of the originally imported MIDI file. Alternatively, you can also choose to change the performance so that it exactly matches, or more or less closely matches, the notation. Thus, Composer offers you a high degree of control over both the notation and the performance of notes.
Using the Piano Roll Notation option, you can explicity:
edit just the notated locations and duration of notes
edit just the performed attacks and releases of notes
or edit both the notated and performed locations and durations of notes
in synchronization
If you are not viewing the Piano Roll Notation, then any changes you make to the location and duration
of notes will affect the notation and might or might not affect the actually performed attack and release
times of the notes. For example, if you select a quarter note and click the 
button or type "8", its notated duration will change to an eighth note. The actually performed
duration of that note might or might not also change.
What determines whether the performed timing of a note changes along with the notation when you change the duration or starting location of the note? The answer is: it depends on whether the performed timing of the note is locked or not.
Composer employs the following sensible rules for determining whether the performed timing of a note is locked or not:
The performed timings are locked for all notes of an imported MIDI
.mid or Karaoke .kar file.
The performed timings are locked for all notes that you record in
real-time at your MIDI keyboard.
The performed timings are unlocked for all notes that you add with
mouse clicks, or by the Step-Time
Recording Method.
The performed timings are locked or unlocked if you explicity
lock
or unlock the timings with the Lock Performance command.
Usually you will not need to think about whether the performed timing of a note is locked or not. However, at any time you can view the Piano Roll Notation of the notes, to see which ones are locked. The piano roll rectangles are white for locked notes, and are yellow for unlocked notes. For details, see Locking and Unlocking the Performed Attack and Release Times.
With Musician, you can edit the rhythms of notes, as displayed in the score, without changing how they are actually performed during playback. Thus, the "feeling" of the originally imported MIDI file is completely preserved.
In fact, with Musician, you can only change how the rhythms are displayed, not how they are performed.
The purpose of MidiNotate Musician is to transcribe into sheet music existing MIDI files, that
it can help you find and download from the Internet. If you wish to edit actual musical performance of
MIDI files, then you should check out MidiNotate Composer at www.notation.com/MidiNotateComposer.htm.
The topics that follow describe procedures for editing the location and duration of notes:
Editing
Note Location (Attack)
Editing
Triplets and Quintuplets
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