Does anyone else find the piano roll really hard to to see where you are putting notes?...
It's like the white and black keys are nearly impossible to tell apart..I have to keep dragging the clip I am working on across to the left so they are next to 'depiction' of the keyboard because I cant work out where I am putting my notes otherwise...my piano roll editor looks nearly all black/grey.
I've tried changing the colours in the prefs but nothing works.

Get a 45 inch screen, makes it a lot bigger.
No seriously, can you zoom in?
I'll have to look at it later today, was thinking you could make it bigger,

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Nice ending to this thread. Greaaat. Helps alot. I'm a S1 newb and this has happened to me. I thought it was the instrument, but in other songs on the same instrument, the piano roll is 'zoomed' - keys are bigger - it's like a little 30-key and I can scroll up and down from the lowest to highest C. In the song at hand, the piano roll looks like about a 60 key and the midi notes are tiny and difficult to work with.
I don't even remember where I saved the manual and I guess I was hoping for a quick answer. Blah!

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Down on the bottom, but the 'scroll bar' there is a + and - button. Click those. It zooms in and out.

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Vertical zoom:
Use Ctrl + Mouse wheel for vertical zooming (when the mouse is over the piano roll or the note area)
OR
at the very bottom right use the 'Data Zoom' for 'smooth' zooming!
Timeline zoom:
At the top in the timeline: use just the mouse wheel OR hold the left mouse button while moving the mouse up/down
OR
use the 'timeline zoom area', again at the very bottom right (left to the data zoom)
Zooming:
E: Zoom In, W: Zoom Out
Shift+E: Zoom In Vertical, Shift+W: Zoom Out Vertical
Zoom Tool:
Activate zoom area: Shift + Alt + draw mouse area
Deactivate: Shift + Alt + mouse click
Painting notes:
with Arrow tool [1]:
- double click to set or remove a note
- hold the left mouse button to move a note OR copy a note with the Alt modifier
- change velocity in the velocity lane
with Paint tool [3]:
- just click the mouse to set or remove a note
- Alt + hold the left mouse button to paint a line of notes (tip: move the mouse up/down while drawing the line)
with Arrow / Paint tool:
- hold Ctrl to temporary switch between the Arrow or Paint tool
- hold Shift to temporary turn off the quantize raster
select and move notes:
select:
- arrow left/right
- Ctrl + Shift + mouse click to select distinct note(s)
- Shift + arrow left/right to select a range of notes
move selected notes:
- arrow up/down
- Alt + arrow left/right
- shift arrow up/down - octave
- special tip: Ctrl + arrow left/right to scroll left/right OR Ctrl + arrow up/down to scroll up/down
others/tips:
D: Duplicate note(s) based on quantize rules
Use the paint tool options (transform, sine, rectangle...) for the velocity lane (and of course for all other parameters)!
Use the action menue for all context specific functions
You can use all loop functions (P, Shift + P, Shift + L, Num1/Num2...) in the same way as in the arranger
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Gottfried