-
-<h2>Adding new notes</h2>
-<p>
- In general, you will probably do most MIDI editing with the mouse in object
- mode. This allows you to select notes, copy, move or delete them and alter
- their properties (see below). But at some point, you're going to want to
- <em>add</em> notes to a MIDI region using the mouse, and if they are to be
- anything other than a fixed length, this means dragging with the mouse.
- Since this would normally be a selection operation if the mouse is in object
- mode, there needs to be some way for you to tell Ardour that you are trying
- 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 you plan to
- enter 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, you cannot
- use Draw Notes mode while using region-level editing.
+
+<p>
+ MIDI notes can be added a few different way in Ardour:
+<p>
+
+<h2 id="add-new-notes-using-the-mouse">Using the mouse</h2>
+
+<p>
+ Drawing notes with the mouse requires that a MIDI track <a
+ href="@@create-midi-tracks">exists</a>, and a blank MIDI region has
+ been <a href="@@create-midi-regions">created</a> in this track.
+</p>
+<p>
+ In either <em>Draw</em> or <em>Internal Edit</em> <a
+ href="@@toolbox">Mode</a> new notes can be added with a click or
+ drag: a mouse <em>click</em> creates a note at the pointer location
+ (or the nearest grid anchor if grid is enabled), and its duration is
+ one <a href="@@grid-controls">Grid unit</a>. A mouse <em>drag</em>
+ creates the note like a click does, but allows continuously setting
+ the duration of the note until the mouse button is released.