FR: Scissors in MIDI editor

[vitocorleone123]

Was watching an instructional video and, man, did that seem really easy to chop up MIDI notes in the editor with the greatest of ease with a scissors tool (Logic). Unfortunately, you can only either draw new notes, or split until they're the size you want and then move/resize them in Waveform - as far as I can tell (I'd love to learn I'm wrong).

This SEEMS like it'd be an easy thing to add and a nice workflow enhancement / match the competition.

[Stuttaton]

I don't see the need for this. You can easily edit the length of a note by dragging the end to the size you want and then make copies by holding ctrl while you drag the note to new places.

[abrickwall]

Duplicating the notes still creates equal length notes, just like splitting. A scissor tool would allow you to split a note at the cursor, just like how we can split clips. For example, if you wanted to use the pattern generator to make chords or a bassline from your chord track, you could then split the long notes it generates to your chosen lengths. With the current behavior you need to split the notes in half (then split those in half, and again, and again, ...), then go back and move the notes individually and adjust the length. Or you can shorten the notes (rather than split), duplicate them a bunch of times, and adjust the length of those. Either way, scissors would be quicker.
The drawing tool does already allow you to draw notes of varying length by dragging horizontally after you click. I think scissors would still be a great addition though, especially for working with chords.

[fromwithin]

I don't see the need for this. You can easily edit the length of a note by dragging the end to the size you want and then make copies by holding ctrl while you drag the note to new places.

You could use the same argument to suggest that everybody only needs to use a Yamaha QX1 sequencer from 1986 to create music. You can easily put in notes and edit them. I don't see the need in having a mouse and screen and making things all complicated.