3 Sometimes you will want to edit MIDI data directly from a connected
4 MIDI device like a music keyboard or pad controller. Sometimes you will
5 want to use the mouse. Sometimes you'll want the fine-grain control,
6 precision and speed of entry that comes from using a custom note entry
10 The step entry dialog is accessed via a right click context menu on the
11 rec-enable button, because step entry is related to <em>recording</em>
12 MIDI data. You cannot simultaneously step edit and record MIDI via the
15 <img src="/images/a3_step_entry.png" />
16 <p>The dialog (quite closely modelled on Logic's) contains:</p>
19 Chord entry switch (successive notes are stacked in a chord until
21 <li>Note length selectors</li>
22 <li>Triplet toggle</li>
23 <li>Normal, single, double and triple dotted note selectors</li>
24 <li>Sustain button</li>
27 <li>Insert a rest of the current selected note duration</li>
28 <li>Insert a rest of the current grid step size</li>
29 <li>Move back to the last inserted note</li>
30 <li>Move forward to the next beat, or bar</li>
31 <li>Move forward to the edit point</li>
34 <li>Dynamics controls from pianississimo to fortississimo</li>
35 <li>Channel selector</li>
37 Explicit numerical velocity selector, for more precise control
38 than the dynamics selectors offer
40 <li>Octave selector</li>
41 <li>Buttons to add bank or program change events</li>
42 <li>a full 10 octave virtual keyboard</li>
45 More or less all actions in the step entry dialog can be driven
46 directly from the keyboard, so you do not need to keep moving back
47 and forth from keyboard to mouse to do complex data insertion.