-
+
<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
+ 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
+ <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,
+<table class="dl">
+ <tr><th>Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting <em>regions</em></th>
+ <td>
+ 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>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><th>Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting <em>notes</em></th>
+ <td>enable <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd>and use mouse object mode</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>Adding new notes</th>
+ <td>
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>
+ </td></tr>
+</table>
<p>
- Note that is also a
- <a href="/working-with-midi/step-entry/">a step entry editor</a>
+ Note that is also a
+ <a href="@@step-entry">a step entry editor</a>
allowing you to enter notes from a virtual keyboard and lots more besides.
</p>
-