How to nudge Midi notes an Octave up or down using different keys?

[Shaan]

I am using a smaller keyboard these days which doesn't have the numeric keypads like the fuller keyboard has, how can I nudge Midi notes an octave up or down without using the transpose dialog box? 

I set the key binding for regular nudge up and down to square brackets  [   ]   (See picture below), but I cannot find entries for the Octave up and down under the Keyboard Shortcuts > Function List to bind to a different keys. 

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I tried pressing  my new key bindings with the combination of Control Key ( Ctrl + [  and Ctrl + ] )  to see if it behaves like the Numpad 2 and 8 with the Control key which nudge them an octave up or down on a fuller keyboard, but it doesn't.

How do I set this up to nudge an octave up or down using different keys? 

 

[Igor]

3 hours ago, Shaan said:

How do I set this up to nudge an octave up or down using different keys?

I have never checked before, but now I looked among the available hotkey combinations, and apparently this function is not provided for hotkeys. In addition, to shift notes by an octave (by any interval) up or down, not the "Nudge" you specified is used, but another function - "Transpose", for opening this window there is a hotkey that you can assign at your discretion. And already in this window, you can very quickly transpose notes by an octave (or several octaves) up or down, clicking on the "+" or "-" icon with the RIGHT mouse button.

[Promidi]

Write two CAL scripts, one to do the octave up, the other to do the octave down.  Then assign keybindings to those CAL scripts.

[Astraios]

5 hours ago, Promidi said:

Write two CAL scripts, one to do the octave up, the other to do the octave down.  Then assign keybindings to those CAL scripts.

I also prefer ProMIDI's method...

This is how the CAL works...

 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Astraios

[tparker24]

Another method:

Select the tracks/notes you wish to transpose, then in the Event Inspector module (in the Control Bar), click on the Pitch field, and enter +12 or -12, for example.

[Astraios]

On 9/6/2025 at 5:11 PM, Shaan said:

... how can I nudge Midi notes an octave up or down without using the transpose dialog box? 

This "Transpose" window dates back to prehistoric times when dinosaurs used DAWs... 🧐

[sjoens]

Easiest way to change octaves on the fly is the Key+ slider in Inspector.  Simply hover mouse and scroll wheel one click up or down for full octave, Shift+wheel for 1 semitone.

Doesn't actually move the notes but acts like it does.

Edited 26 minutes ago by sjoens