X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=include%2Fhandling-overlapping-notes.html;h=a79f30512f8ac155480f42c7edb9509fc21dd794;hb=65c85fa9b607c8c0e852d77c8117e3125181e69c;hp=eebe24ec16691de74c9ad0bc15fde6540e9a4fb1;hpb=2098e011e638b5c86c56e68df7757975fc4d728f;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/include/handling-overlapping-notes.html b/include/handling-overlapping-notes.html index eebe24e..a79f305 100644 --- a/include/handling-overlapping-notes.html +++ b/include/handling-overlapping-notes.html @@ -1,41 +1,39 @@ - +
- Every MIDI note consists of two messages, a NoteOn and a NoteOff. Each one - has a note number and a channel (also a velocity, but that isn't relevant - here). The MIDI standard stresses that it is invalid to send a second NoteOn - for the same note number on the same channel before a NoteOff for the first - NoteOn. It is more or less impossible to do this with a physical MIDI - controller such as a keyboard, but remarkably easy to trigger when editing - in a DAW - simply overlapping two instances of the same note will do it. + Every MIDI note consists of two messages, a NoteOn and a NoteOff. Each one + has a note number and a channel (also a velocity, but that isn't relevant + here). The MIDI standard stresses that it is invalid to send a second NoteOn + for the same note number on the same channel before a NoteOff for the first + NoteOn. It is more or less impossible to do this with a physical MIDI + controller such as a keyboard, but remarkably easy to trigger when editing + in a DAW—simply overlapping two instances of the same note will do it.
- Ardour offers many options for how to deal with instances where you overlap - two instances of the same note. Which one to use is a per-session property - and can be modified from Session > Properties > Misc > MIDI + Ardour offers many options for how to deal with instances where two instances + of the same note overlap. Which one to use is a per-session property and can + be modified from Session > Properties > Misc > MIDI Options.
-never allow them | +Edits that would create note overlaps are not allowed |
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don't do anything in particular | +Ardour leaves overlapping notes alone—the behaviour of a MIDI receiver (plugin or hardware) is undefined |
replace any overlapped existing note | +When one note is moved to overlap another, remove the one that wasn't being moved |
shorten the overlapped existing note | +When one note is moved to overlap another, shorten the one that wasn't moved so that there is no overlap |
shorten the overlapping new note | +When one note is moved to overlap another, shorten the one that was moved so that there is no overlap |
replace both overlapping notes with a single note | +When one note is moved to overlap another, merge them both to form one (longer) note |
- Changing the option in use will not retroactively make changes — it will + Changing the option in use will not retroactively make changes—it will only affect new note overlaps created while the option remains chosen.
- Ardour does not check for note overlaps across tracks or even across regions. - If you create these, it is your responsibility to deal with the consequences. + Ardour does not check for note overlaps across tracks or even across regions. + Dealing with the consequences is up to the user.
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