6 <h2>Adding new notes</h2>
8 In general, most MIDI editing will be done with the mouse in object mode. This allows selecting notes, copying, moving or deleting them and altering their properties (see below). <em>Adding</em> notes to a MIDI region using the mouse requires dragging with the mouse if they are to be anything other than a fixed length. Since this would normally be a selection operation if the mouse is in object mode, there needs to be some way to tell Ardour to <dfn>draw</dfn> new notes within a MIDI region. Ardour provides two ways do this: one is to leave the mouse in object mode and <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag; the other, useful if entering a lot of notes for a while, is to switch the mouse into <kbd class="menu">Draw Notes</kbd> mode, which will now interpret any drags and clicks as requests to add a new note. For obvious reasons, Draw Notes mode cannot be used while using region-level editing.
11 <p>So, to summarize:</p>
13 <dl class="wide-table">
14 <dt>Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting <em>regions</em></dt>
16 leave <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd> disabled, use object,
17 range or other mouse modes
19 <dt>Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting <em>notes</em></dt>
20 <dd>enable <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd>and use mouse object mode</dd>
21 <dt>Adding new notes</dt>
23 enable "Note Level Editing" and then either
25 <li>use mouse object mode and <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag,
27 <li>use mouse draw mode.</li>
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36 It is also a <a href="/editing-and-arranging/edit-midi/step-entry">a step entry editor</a> allowing entry of notes from a virtual keyboard, and lots more besides.