6 <h2>Adding new notes</h2>
8 In general, you will probably do most MIDI editing with the mouse in object
9 mode. This allows you to select notes, copy, move or delete them and alter
10 their properties (see below). But at some point, you're going to want to
11 <em>add</em> notes to a MIDI region using the mouse, and if they are to be
12 anything other than a fixed length, this means dragging with the mouse.
13 Since this would normally be a selection operation if the mouse is in object
14 mode, there needs to be some way for you to tell Ardour that you are trying
15 to <dfn>draw</dfn> new notes within a MIDI region. Ardour provides two ways
16 do this. One is to leave the mouse in object mode and
17 <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag. The other, useful if you plan to
18 enter a lot of notes for a while, is to switch the mouse into
19 <kbd class="menu">Draw Notes</kbd> mode, which will now interpret any drags
20 and clicks as requests to add a new note. For obvious reasons, you cannot
21 use Draw Notes mode while using region-level editing.
24 <p>So, to summarize:</p>
25 <dl class="wide-table">
26 <dt>Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting <em>regions</em></dt>
28 leave <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd> disabled, use object,
29 range or other mouse modes
31 <dt>Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting <em>notes</em></dt>
32 <dd>enable <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd>and use mouse object mode</dd>
33 <dt>Adding new notes</dt>
35 enable "Note Level Editing" and then either
37 <li>use mouse object mode and <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag,
39 <li>use mouse draw mode.</li>
45 <a href="/editing-and-arranging/edit-midi/step-entry">a step entry editor</a>
46 allowing you to enter notes from a virtual keyboard and lots more besides.