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