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Note

Notes in the piano roll trigger sounds in instruments.

Note

Represents a note in the FL Studio piano roll.

number property writable 

number: int

Standard MIDI note number (60 is middle C).

time property writable 

time: int

Time at which the note begins (in ticks).

length property writable 

length: int

Length of the note (in ticks).

group property writable 

group: int

Group number that this note belongs to. This can be used to link notes together such that if the user moves one, all others in the same group are also moved.

To un-group notes, set the group number to 0.

pan property writable 

pan: float

The panning value of the note, between 0 and 1. 0.5 is centered.

velocity property writable 

velocity: float

The velocity of the note, between 0 and 1. 0.8 is the default.

release property writable 

release: float

The release of the note, between 0 and 1. 0.5 is the default.

color property writable 

color: int

The color of the note, between 0 and 15. 0 is the default note color.

fcut property writable 

fcut: float

The note filter cutoff frequency, between 0 and 1. 0.5 is the default.

fres property writable 

fres: float

The note filter resonance frequency, between 0 and 1. 0.5 is the default.

pitchofs property writable 

pitchofs: int

The pitch offset of the note, between -120 (-1 octave) and 120 (+1 octave).

This is represented in units of 10 cents, so setting note.pitchofs = 42 will set the pitch offset to +420 cents.

repeats property writable 

repeats: int

The repeats property of the note from 0 to 14.

  • 0: no repeat
  • 1: 1/4 (beat)
  • 2: 1/8 dotted
  • 3: 1/4 triplet
  • 4: 1/8
  • 5: 1/16 dotted
  • 6: 1/8 triplet
  • 7: 1/16 (step)
  • 8: 1/32 dotted
  • 9: 1/16 triplet
  • 10: 1/32 (half step)
  • 11: 1/64 dotted
  • 12: 1/32 triplet
  • 13: 1/64 (quarter step)
  • 14: 1/64 triplet

slide property writable 

slide: bool

Whether the note is a slide note.

porta property writable 

porta: bool

Whether the note is a portamento note.

muted property writable 

muted: bool

Whether the note is muted.

selected property writable 

selected: bool

Whether the note is selected within the piano roll.

__init__ 

__init__() -> None

Create a new instance of a Note object

This note won't be added to the piano roll unless it is passed to score.addNote.

clone 

clone() -> Note

Return a new Note object with identical properties to this note.

This note will not be added to the piano roll until score.addNote is called with it as an argument.