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Add - Continuous Data dialog box

How to get there

Choose Window > Advanced Tools. Click the MIDI tool .
Choose MIDI tool > Continuous Data. If you’re in the MIDI tool split-window, select the region you want to affect by dragging through the "graph" display area or by selecting the handles of individual notes whose MIDI data you want to edit.
Select some measures. (If you’re editing a one-staff region, double-click to enter the MIDI tool split-window.)
Choose MIDI tool > Add.

What it does

The Add dialog box’s contents change to reflect your MIDI data type selection (MIDI continuous data such as controllers and wheels). Its function is to add a fixed amount to (or subtract a fixed amount from) the controller value of every note in the selected region. Because it adds an absolute amount to every selected note, the Add command preserves the relative proportions of the existing values.

Add ___. In this text box, enter the value you want added to the selected MIDI data values of all selected notes. Note that in any of the examples below, this value can be a positive or negative number. A dialog box appears in which you can specify the MIDI controller you want to edit—pedaling, patch changes, pitch wheel, and so on. In this case, the number in the Add text box specifies a value you want added to the selected controller’s value for all the selected music. The Add command isn’t relevant if you’ve specified a non-continuous controller such as the sustain pedal or a patch change; it may be useful, however, if you want to increase the degree of pitch bend or monophonic aftertouch by a uniform amount for every note in the selected region.
OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the MIDI data changes you’ve specified. You return to the MIDI tool split-window (or the score)