<p>
- Sometimes you will want to edit MIDI data directly from a connected
- MIDI device like a music keyboard or pad controller. Sometimes you will
- want to use the mouse. Sometimes you'll want the fine-grain control,
- precision and speed of entry that comes from using a custom note entry
- dialog.
+ Editing MIDI can be a tedious task. Ardour allows using a connected
+ MIDI device like a music keyboard or pad controller, or use the mouse.
+ A third option, providing fine-grain control, precision and speed of entry
+ comes from using a custom note entry dialog.
</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. You cannot simultaneously step edit and record MIDI via the
- track's MIDI port.
+ 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 happen
+ simultaneously.
</p>
-<img src="/images/a3_step_entry.png" />
-<p>The dialog (quite closely modelled on Logic's) contains:</p>
+
+<figure>
+ <img src="/images/a3_step_entry.png" alt="Ardour's Step Entry dialog">
+ <figcaption>
+ Ardour's Step Entry dialog
+ </figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<p>
+ The dialog (quite closely modelled on Logic's) contains:
+</p>
+
<ul>
- <li>
- Chord entry switch (successive notes are stacked in a chord until
+ <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>
<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>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 you do not need to keep moving back
- and forth from keyboard to mouse to do complex data insertion.
+ More or less all actions in the step entry dialog can be driven directly from
+ the keyboard, so that moving back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse is
+ not necessary even for complex data insertion.
</p>
-