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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 <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.
+</p>
+
+<p>So, to summarize:</p>
+<dl class="wide-table">
+ <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="/working-with-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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