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-title: Step Entry
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-
-<p>
- Sometimes editing MIDI data directly from a connected MIDI device like a musical
- keyboard or pad controller is desired; sometimes using the mouse is. Sometimes
- the fine-grained control, precision and speed of entry that comes from using a
- custom note entry dialog is; the <dfn>Step Entry</dfn> dialog aims to be the
- latter.
-</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—step editing and recording MIDI via the track's MIDI port cannot be
- done simultaneously.
-</p>
-
-<p class="center"><img src="/images/a3_step_entry.png" /></p>
-
-<p>The dialog (closely modeled after 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 moving back and forth from keyboard to mouse to do complex data
- insertion is unnecessary.
-</p>
-