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title: MIDI Track Controls
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- <p>A typical control area for a MIDI track is shown below:</p>
-<p><img src="/ardour/manual/html/diagrams/typical-midi-track-controls.png" alt="midi track controls"></p>
-<p>The MIDI track example is shown at a greater height than the other examples, as with MIDI tracks there are some control elements which only appear when there is sufficient vertical space to fit them in.</p>
-<p>A MIDI track has the same basic <a href="/working-with-tracks/audio-track-controls">controls as an audio track</a>, with the addition of two extra elements. The set of buttons below the main track controls controls the MIDI channels that should be visible in the editor. A MIDI track's data may span any number of the 16 available MIDI channels, and sometimes it is useful to view only a subset of those channels; different instruments may, for example, be put on different MIDI channels. Clicking on a channel number toggles its visibility.</p>
-<p>To the right of the MIDI track controls is a representation of a piano keyboard called the ‘scroomer’. This performs a couple of functions. Firstly, the scroll-bar controls the range of pitches that are visible on the track. Dragging the scroll-bar body up and down scrolls up and down through the visible pitches, and dragging the scroll-bar ‘handles’ zooms in and out, so that more or fewer pitches are visible. The piano keyboard gives a reference for the pitches that the track is displaying. In addition, clicking on the notes will generate the corresponding MIDI note in the track. </p>
+<p>A typical <dfn>MIDI track header</dfn> looks like this:</p>
+<img src="/ardour/manual/html/diagrams/typical-midi-track-controls.png" alt="midi track controls"
+ />
+<p>
+ To see the full set of MIDI track controls, you need to increase the
+ <a href="/working-with-tracks/controlling-track-appearance/track-height/">track height</a>
+ beyond the default. MIDI tracks show only a few of the control elements
+ when there is insufficient vertical space.
+</p>
+<p>
+ A MIDI track has the same basic
+ <a href="/working-with-tracks/audio-track-controls">controls as an audio track</a>,
+ with the addition of two extra elements. The set of buttons below the main track
+ controls the <dfn>MIDI channel</dfn>(s) that will be visible in the editor. A MIDI track's
+ data may span any number of the 16 available MIDI channels, and sometimes it is
+ useful to view only a subset of those channels; different instruments may,
+ for example, be put on different channels. Clicking on a channel number toggles
+ its visibility.
+</p>
+<p>
+ To the right of the MIDI track controls is a representation of a piano keyboard
+ called the <dfn>scroomer</dfn>. This performs a couple of functions.
+ The scrollbar controls the range of pitches that are visible on the
+ track, as visualized by the piano keyboard.<br />
+ Drag the body of the scrollbar up and down to display higher or lower
+ pitches.<br />
+ Drag the scrollbar handles to zooms in and out and increase and decrease the
+ range of visible pitches.<br />
+ clicking on the piano plays the corresponding MIDI note for reference.
+</p>
+<p>
+ To edit the contents of a MIDI track see <a href="/editing-and-arranging/edit-midi/">Edit
+ MIDI</a>.
+</p>