

You can also see them if you point your mouse at the grid setting in the lower right-hand corner of the clip overview, or in the arrangement view.

Here, you can see the five key commands for the grid setting displayed in the middle of that menu.

You'll want to know where you can find those key commands, so let's go up to the options menu. I actually find the adaptive grid to be a bit annoying, so instead, I often will change the grid amount using a key command. Then if I zoom in and out, you can see that the grid amount is not changing. Currently, this is set at an eighth note, and if I want to change that to a sixteenth note or a quarter note, I can do that. Notice that we also can set this as a fixed grid. Let's right-click on the background there again. Let's click that clip up here on the bass track to re-display it here in arrangement view down in the MIDI editor area. As I hit my minus key and zoom back out, the grid is changing. I'm zooming in, and now I'm on a half note, and then a quarter note, and then an eighth note. So if I click somewhere on the timeline here and zoom in and zoom out, we'll see the same thing. If I tab over into the arrangement view, we'll also see that the grid is showing here in the lower right-hand corner of the arrangement view area. And if I hit my minus key to zoom back out, once, I'm on an eighth note, couple more times, I'm on a quarter note. Couple more times, I'm on a sixteenth note.
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If I click here in the middle and hit my plus button to zoom in, I'm now on an eighth note. What that means is, is that as you zoom in and zoom out, the grid will change with your zoom setting. If you need to change that grid, you can right-click, and we can see that, currently, we're on adaptive grid. Now, down in the clip overview, or MIDI editor area, we can see that the grid is set at a quarter note by looking down in the lower right-hand corner. Let's select this first clip on the pulse bass track by double-clicking on it. I've opened up exercise one from chapter five again.
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Understanding how to adjust the grid and loop length are a big help when working with MIDI notes in the MIDI editor, and familiarity with the related keyboard shortcuts will really speed up your workflow.
