Many sequencers treat notes and controllers completely separately, and they leave it up to you to remember to edit the controllers after you edit the notes they affect. For example, if you copy some notes that also have a crescendo, you’d need to remember to copy and paste the crescendo after doing so with the notes.
FreeStyle helps you out by automatically selecting controllers when you select notes by dragging a selection box over them. When you copy or modify the notes, the controller information will come along for the ride. FreeStyle decides whether or not to auto-select the controller information based on the amount of overlap that the selected notes have with the other notes around them. Since there are times when FreeStyle may not select controllers you want it to, or may select ones you don’t, you should keep the controllers view open if you are not sure what is happening. Also, if you find that you do not like the decisions that FreeStyle makes about when to select controllers, there is a preference to turn auto selection off.
FreeStyle also gives you a hand when it comes to pasting controllers. In other sequencers, when you paste controller information on top of other controller information, the events are simply merged together. This almost always yields horrible sounding results. FreeStyle takes a more intelligent approach. It looks at the controllers that are being merged together, and if there is a conflict it only keeps the controllers you are pasting. What you are pasting always takes precedence over the destination. In this way the notes that you paste will sound the same as when they were copied. (You can reverse this behavior by checking the “keep destination controllers” preference.)
