Your favorite piano roll features?

[Shane Sanders]

What are your favorite piano roll features that make things more productive for you? What DAW are they found in? Thanks!

[Dexter US]

I like to send notes with lfo's while I am using a piano roll or drum machine.. I can do that in vcv rack,.. I think you can define each individual note in one of them and I found that impressive.. I am trying to remember thier name but they have a forum here..

[pdxindy]

Midi Step Input

[Shane Sanders]

Midi Step Input

That is definitely a great timesaver, and removes a lot of imprecision.

[andypryce]

Logic Pro
Select lowest/highest notes
Select Equal sub positions
Stretch notes.

[Shane Sanders]

Logic Pro
Select lowest/highest notes
Select Equal sub positions
Stretch notes.

Good ones! Thanks.

[cryophonik]

Logic Pro
Select lowest/highest notes
Select Equal sub positions
Stretch notes.

I'll take that a step further and include the entire MIDI Transform window (e.g., fixed velocity/note length, humanize).

[KBSoundSmith]

Viewing multiple MIDI files at a time and being able to switch among them as needed.

[osiris]

Being able to see a transparent wave under the piano roll in FL. Also Snap to Key is great.

[merlinaudio]

The way Ableton Live lets you chop up notes is pretty ingenious and one of my absolute most-used features. You can hold E and scroll up and down to divide evenly. You can divide many based on grid, or cursor position. And when holding Alt while grabbing the seam between two notes, you can drag it around to reposition the seam (i.e. change both [ending of first note] and [beginning of second note])

[Munin]

Live has indeed made a lot of strides in this regard. I think Logic is still ahead overall though (but Logic is way clunkier for actual clip manipulation so there is that)

[Seafire Mk2]

Flip X/Y

[VOODOO U]

May be a bit of a hi-jack but with A.I. on board it would be great if it can recognize user patterns within the piano roll and ask if those patterns should be repeated.
As an example if I play drum parts and decide on the chorus (for example) I have floor tom hits that would go better on a mid tom, I move the floor tom notes to the mid at the first chorus, repeat at the second chorus and automatically a message asks if I want this repeated with subsequent chrouses. I click "yes" and voila. Maybe even go a step further and have A.I. ask at the note movements on the first chorus because it can detect similarity.

[eLawnMust]

Not to bust chops on FLs highly touted piano roll but BUZE has incredible Rt-Click menu on both piano roll or FX curve lanes & many of those choices have submenus-



Here's a close-up of the menu easier to read, colors contrasted-



These are undiscovered to most all desktop dabblers as so many stay inside the 'ableton/reaper/fl studio' paradigm so no way to know this... even SVArTracker freeware from 2008 has multi-temporal patterns or in other words patterns that can run at different speeds but retain same pitching... Bidule can do this & maybe MuLab but they are commercial...