Lessons · 107 Fixing notes
  1. 101 Playing live
  2. 102 Your own progressions
  3. 103 Your song
  4. 104 Changing styles
  5. 105 Recording a melody
  6. 106 Your own grooves
  7. 107 Fixing notes
  8. 108 Making it sound yours
  9. 109 Keeping your work
  10. 110 With other gear
  11. All lessons

107 Fixing notes

Change, move, delete and enter single notes, without recording again.

Picks up where 106 left off, with Polly stopped on the Band page and Funk as the style.

Watch 107 Fixing notes (1 minute)

1. Open Notes

Press PLAY. On the Band page, turn ALGORITHM to BA for the bass, then press SEQ.

The Notes page shows the bass's notes as a piano roll.
The Notes page on BA, with the first note selected

2. Pick a note

Turn SELECT to step from note to note. The selected note gets a coral ring, and the line at the top names it.

Go back to the first note. It's C2 at bar 1.1.
C2 at bar 1.1 selected

3. Change its pitch

Turn KNOB 2 (Pitch) one step. On this note the bass always plays the chord's root, so Polly asks "PLAY THIS BASS AS WRITTEN?"

Press SEL to answer yes, and the bass plays your notes as written. Keep turning to E2.
KNOB 2 turned: PLAY THIS BASS AS WRITTEN?

4. Change its length and velocity

Turn KNOB 3 (Length) up to make the note longer. Turn KNOB 4 (Velocity) down to play it softer.
E2, 17/24 beats long, velocity 106

5. Move it

Hold SEL and turn SELECT. The note moves one grid step with each click of the knob.
SEL held, SELECT turned: the note at 1.1.2

6. Delete a note, enter one

Press EDIT to delete the selected note.

Turn KNOB 1 (Place) to an empty place, then play a key. The note goes in there.
A key played at bar 1.1: G3 entered

7. Undo

Hold HOME and press REC. Your last edit is undone, and the header tells you what changed.

Press PLAY to stop.
HOME held, REC pressed: UNDO GROOVE A NOTES

More in the manual

For drums, melodies, zoom and erasing while recording, see Fixing notes. See also Undo.