7 Sometimes editing MIDI data directly from a connected MIDI device like a musical
8 keyboard or pad controller is desired; sometimes using the mouse is. Sometimes
9 the fine-grained control, precision and speed of entry that comes from using a
10 custom note entry dialog is; the <dfn>Step Entry</dfn> dialog aims to be the
15 The step entry dialog is accessed via a right click context menu on the
16 rec-enable button, because step entry is related to <em>recording</em> MIDI
17 data—step editing and recording MIDI via the track's MIDI port cannot be
21 <p class="center"><img src="/images/a3_step_entry.png" /></p>
23 <p>The dialog (closely modeled after Logic's) contains:</p>
27 Chord entry switch (successive notes are stacked in a chord until
29 <li>Note length selectors</li>
30 <li>Triplet toggle</li>
31 <li>Normal, single, double and triple dotted note selectors</li>
32 <li>Sustain button</li>
35 <li>Insert a rest of the current selected note duration</li>
36 <li>Insert a rest of the current grid step size</li>
37 <li>Move back to the last inserted note</li>
38 <li>Move forward to the next beat, or bar</li>
39 <li>Move forward to the edit point</li>
42 <li>Dynamics controls from pianississimo to fortississimo</li>
43 <li>Channel selector</li>
45 Explicit numerical velocity selector, for more precise control
46 than the dynamics selectors offer
48 <li>Octave selector</li>
49 <li>Buttons to add bank or program change events</li>
50 <li>a full 10 octave virtual keyboard</li>
54 More or less all actions in the step entry dialog can be driven directly from
55 the keyboard, so moving back and forth from keyboard to mouse to do complex data
56 insertion is unnecessary.