<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.
+ 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>Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting <em>regions</em></dt>
<dd>
</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.
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+<p> </p>
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+<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.
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