

When this is enabled, you will see a new widget appear on the track header (see below). This menu allows you to choose whether you want to manually be able to specify channels or whether you prefer that Aria hides this concept. In the midi specs, tracks are a group of notes, whereas channels are where the tracks actually play their notes. Settings > Channel management Midi considers tracks and channels as two seperate entities. Here you can decide how often you want it to play these previews. Settings > Play during edits When you edit a song, Aria offers you to play the notes you’re manipulating, without you ever pressing play. Settings > Follow Playback If checked, when you hit play, the scroll will scroll as the song moves on so that the currently played part is always visible on screen. Volume to use for new notes, (2) background (displays notes from other tracks, currently works only in Piano editor). Track > Properties Lets you set the current track's properties, including (1) default It can be used in other cases too - you get the picture. Edit > Remove Overlapping Notes If you copied a hundred notes, pasted them right on top of their original ones, and accidentally unselected them before moving them - all notes now have doubles! Fortunately you can just select those notes and use this feature. If you end with notes that seem to have unusual lengths/locations, select the notes, select an appropriate grid size (see below in track docs) and select this option.

if you want to select all notes from measures 65 to 78) Edit > Snap notes to grid Aria uses a "magnetic grid" to ensure that notes have a precise location and duration, corresponding to those of music theory. For instance, if you want to select all G notes, you can just select one G notes, choose this option in the menu, check "select all notes that have the same pitch", click OK, and it’s done! You can also use this feature to select all notes within a range of measures (i.e. Most of these criteria are based on a currently selected note. Edit > Paste at cursor Pastes the selected notes near the cursor (using this item from the menu has little use of course, you need to use the keyboard shortcut : CMD/CTRL + SHIFT + V). File > Song Info Midi files allow their author to specify information like title and copyright. You can then just click on the newly appeard tab to switch to this song. It will appear as a new tab in the bar that shows currently open sequences (a la Firefox tabs). (Obvious menu items have been left out) File > New Creates a new song.
