WTH is “Note Level Editing”? (See table below, “So, to summarize…”.)
++ For light MIDI editing, Internal Edit Mode can be used. This mode allows + selecting, copying, moving and deleting notes, and also allows altering + notes’ properties. To add notes using the mouse, Left-drag. For more extensive MIDI editing, Draw Mode may be preferred. New notes can be added with + a click or drag, without having to hold down . + However, Draw Mode doesn't allow region-level + editing. +
+ +Not sure if the following paragraph is true.
- In general, most MIDI editing will probably be done with the mouse in object - mode. This allows to select notes, copy, move or delete them and alter their - properties (see below). But at some point, adding notes to a MIDI - region using the mouse will mean 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 to tell Ardour that the user is trying to draw new - notes within a MIDI region. Ardour provides two ways do this. One is to leave - the mouse in object mode and Left-drag. The - other, useful to enter a lot of notes for a while, is to switch the mouse into - Draw Notes mode, which will now interpret any drags - and clicks as requests to add a new note. For obvious reasons, Draw Notes mode - can not be used while using region-level editing. + In both modes, a mouse click creates a note at the pointer location + (or the nearest grid point if grid is enabled), and its duration is one Grid unit, even if the grid is disabled. A mouse + drag creates the note like a click does, but allows continuously + setting the duration of the note until the mouse button is released.
So, to summarize:
+| Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting regions | -Note Level Editing disabled, using object, - range or other mouse modes |
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| Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting notes | -Note Level Editing enabled, and using mouse object mode |
| Adding new notes | -enabling "Note Level Editing" and then either
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| Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting regions | +Note Level Editing disabled, using object, range or other mouse modes | +
| Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting notes | +Note Level Editing enabled, and using mouse object mode | +
| Adding new notes | +Enabling "Note Level Editing" and then either
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- Note that there is also a step entry editor allowing to - enter notes from a virtual keyboard and lots more besides. + +
+ There is also a step entry editor that allows the + entry of notes from a virtual keyboard.