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When you record a performance from your MIDI keyboard, you might or might not want to preserve the fine details of your performance-- the loudness of each note, how close each note is to the beat, and how long the note is.

 

If the purpose of recording your live performance is just to get notes into the score, and you intend to fine-tune the performance of the notes later, then you can use Composer's.  default setting that changes both the notation and the performance of notes when you edit the note(s).  When you edit any note(s), both the notation and the performance of the note will be changed, so that "what you see is what you hear."

 

On the other hand, if you want to preserve your musical interpretation of the music as you performed it but you want to "clean up" the notation, then you should use the Piano Roll to change the editing mode to "edit only as-notated." Then, when you edit the notation, you will not risk accidentally also changing the underlying performance of the notes-- their loudness, attacks, and releases.

 

If you decide that you are happy with the notation, but want to edit the performance to add more "character" to the performance, you can use the Piano Roll to change the editing mode to "edit only the as-performed" aspect of the notes in your score.