7 Ardour is designed to work best with a <dfn>three button mouse</dfn>
8 equipped with a <dfn>scroll wheel</dfn>.
11 It can be used with a two button mouse or touchpad, but at least two key
12 operations will not (easily) be available to you:
15 <li>time-constrained region copying</li>
16 <li><a href="/using-control-surfaces/midi-learn/"><abbr title="Musical
17 Instrument Digital Interface">MIDI</abbr> bindings</a>
18 created by "learning" them from incoming MIDI data</li>
21 You are strongly encouraged to invest in a three-button mouse. You will
22 find that a good quality mouse (especially one with a weighted,
23 latchable scroll wheel) will make your use of Ardour vastly more
24 efficient. They are cheap, and time is not.
27 For more detailed instructions, see
28 <a href="/ardours-interface/basic-gui-operations/using-the-mouse/">Using the mouse</a>.