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title: Add New Notes
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- <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 "draw" new notes within a MIDI region. Ardour provides two ways do this. One is to leave the mouse in object mode and press the control key while dragging (on OS X, use the Command key). The other, useful if you plan to enter a lot of notes for a while, is to switch the mouse into "Draw Notes" 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>
+<h2>Adding new notes</h2>
+<p>
+ In general, most MIDI editing will be done with the mouse in object mode. This allows selecting notes, copying, moving or deleting them and altering their properties (see below). <em>Adding</em> notes to a MIDI region using the mouse requires dragging with the mouse if they are to be anything other than a fixed length. Since this would normally be a selection operation if the mouse is in object mode, there needs to be some way to tell Ardour 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 entering 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, Draw Notes mode cannot be used while using region-level editing.
+</p>
+
<p>So, to summarize:</p>
+
<dl class="wide-table">
-<dt>
-<em>Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting</em> <strong>regions</strong><dt>
-</dt>
-</dt>
-<dd>leave "Note Level Editing" disabled, use object, range or other mouse modes</dd>
-<dt>
-<em>Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting</em> <strong>notes</strong>
-</dt>
-<dd> enable "Note Level Editing" and use mouse object mode.</dd>
-<dt>
-<em>Adding new</em> <strong>notes</strong>
-</dt>
-<dd>enable "Note Level Editing" and then either
-<ul>
-<li>use mouse object mode and Ctrl-drag (Cmd-drag on OS X)
-</li>
-<li>use mouse draw mode
- </li>
-</ul>
-</dd>
+ <dt>Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting <em>regions</em></dt>
+ <dd>
+ leave <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd> disabled, use object,
+ range or other mouse modes
+ </dd>
+ <dt>Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting <em>notes</em></dt>
+ <dd>enable <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd>and use mouse object mode</dd>
+ <dt>Adding new notes</dt>
+ <dd>
+ enable "Note Level Editing" and then either
+ <ul>
+ <li>use mouse object mode and <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag,
+ or</li>
+ <li>use mouse draw mode.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
</dl>
-<p>Note that is also a <a href="/editing-and-arranging/edit-midi/step-entry">a step entry editor</a> allowing you to enter notes from a virtual keyboard and lots more besides.</p>
-
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+<!-- FIXME: This is needed to keep the table from sucking up the following note's styling. Probably need a fix in the CSS. -->
+<p> </p>
+
+<p class="note">
+ It is also a <a href="/editing-and-arranging/edit-midi/step-entry">a step entry editor</a> allowing entry of notes from a virtual keyboard, and lots more besides.
+</p>
+
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