Piano roll view sometimes shows number and other times shows a keyboard [SOVED]

[tdehan]

Why in Piano Roll View sometimes it shows number and other times shows a keyboard.  Is there a way to make it show the keyboard when it is showing numbers?

 

 

Edited April 28 by tdehan

[OutrageProductions]

If the track you are viewing has been frozen, it will just show the latter. Unfreeze it and the keyboard comes back.

[tdehan]

the track is not frozen

[tparker24]

On 4/26/2025 at 11:02 AM, tdehan said:

Why in Piano Roll View sometimes it shows number and other times shows a keyboard.  Is there a way to make it show the keyboard when it is showing numbers?

Right click on the very left in Piano Roll View, on either the piano keys, or the numbers.  This opens the Note Names Dialog box.  See this for more:

https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=Cakewalk&language=3&help=Instrument_Defs.09.html

[tdehan]

@tparker24.  I appreciate the response however, that doesn't even come close to my question.

[57Gregy]

On 4/26/2025 at 1:02 PM, tdehan said:

Why in Piano Roll View sometimes it shows number and other times shows a keyboard.  Is there a way to make it show the keyboard when it is showing numbers?

 

 

Scroll up.
Or maybe select Use Assigned Instrument Name.

[tdehan]

@57gregy, I already have tried that, it does not make the keyboard appear, it just gives names.  I want to see the keyboard

[sjoens]

This normally happens when a MIDI track's output is set to a frozen synth or is set specifically to display 0.. 127, but this can be overridden.

"Right click on the very left in Piano Roll View" was right on but try Use these Note Names Instead > Diatonic to display keys.

Side Note:  Editing notes on a frozen MIDI/Synth track won't affect the synth until it's unfrozen.

[tdehan]

Ok, I got it to work.  By clicking USE THESE NOTE NAMES INSTEAD and selecting DIATONIC, then click on USE THE ASSIGNED INSTRUMENTS SETTINGS and then back again to USE THESE NOTE NAMES INSTEAD and selecting DIATONIC it changes to the keyboard.

[57Gregy]

Oy. Of course you won't get a keyboard by scrolling. 😉

[tdehan]

47 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

Oy. Of course you won't get a keyboard by scrolling. 😉

huh??

[57Gregy]

38 minutes ago, tdehan said:

huh??

I made a mistake in my reply above by suggesting that you could return to the keyboard by scrolling up. So, I recognized that mistake when I reread this thread.