Ableton/Live/UG/10 Editing MIDI/05 Editing MIDI Notes/02 Selecting Notes and Timespan
- Click to place the insert marker; left and right arrows move it by the grid, with
Option (Mac) / Ctrl (Win) to the previous or next note boundary. Home and End go to the clip's start and end. - Drag to select a timespan; enclosed notes are selected too.
Enter toggles between the timespan and its notes; Esc or a click outside clears it. Arrow keys with notes selected move or transpose them. Shift+arrows select or resize a timespan by the grid; add Cmd (Mac) / Alt (Win) to ignore the grid, or Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) to go to note boundaries.- Click a note to select it, or with
Option (Mac) / Ctrl (Win), up and down select the nearest note and step through notes in time, and left and right step along the same key track. - Drag to select several notes;
Shift-click adds or removes one; Shift-click a piano key toggles all notes on that key. Option+Shift (Mac) / Ctrl+Shift (Win) with up and down keeps adding notes. Cmd+A (Mac) / Ctrl+A (Win) selects all; Invert Selection, Cmd+Shift+A (Mac) / Ctrl+Shift+A (Win), swaps selected and unselected notes.