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- Ardour's handling of MIDI editing differs from most other DAWs
- and MIDI sequencers.
+ Ardour's handling of MIDI and how it allows the editing of MIDI data differs
+ in key ways from most other DAWs and MIDI sequencers. Also, unlike its
+ handling of audio data, the editing of MIDI data in Ardour is necessarily
+ destructive by nature.
-Key features of Ardour MIDI handling
+Key features of Ardour MIDI editing
+
-
- All editing is done in-place, in-window. There is no separate piano roll
- window or pane. Edit notes right where they appear.
-
- -
- MIDI, just like audio, exists in regions. MIDI regions behave like audio
- regions: they can be moved, trimmed, copied (cloned), or deleted. Ardour
- allows either editing MIDI (or audio) regions, or MIDI region content (the
- notes), but never both at the same time. The key
- (by default) toggles between region level and note level editing
+ All editing is done in-place, in-window; there is no separate piano roll
+ window or pane. Notes are edited right where they appear.
-
Editing note information in Ardour occurs in only a single region. There is
- no way currently to edit in note data for multiple regions at the same time,
- so for example notes cannot be selected in several regions and then all
- deleted, nor can they be copied-and-pasted from one region to another.
- Region(s), though, can be copy-pasted just as with audio.
+ no way currently to edit note data for multiple regions at the same time;
+ so, for example, notes cannot be selected in several regions and then all
+ deleted, nor can they be copied and pasted from one region to another.
+ Regions, however, can be copied and pasted just as with audio.
-
When using jackd as the audio server for Ardour, all MIDI I/O is done
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There is a Normal and a Percussive mode for note data editing.
-
- The scroomer is a combination scroll/zoom tool for altering
- the zoom level and range of visible MIDI data.
+ The vertical dimension of the region window is controlled by a
+ scroomer widget, which is a combination scroll/zoom tool for
+ altering the zoom level and range of visible MIDI data.
-Notable Differences
-
- -
- Fader (volume) control currently operates on transmitted MIDI data, not by
- sending CC #7.
-
- -
- All note/data editing is per-region. There are no cross-region operations at
- this time.
-
- -
- By default, copying a MIDI region creates a deep link—both
- regions share the same data source, and edits to the contents of one will
- affect the other. Breaking this link is done by selecting from the region
- context menu, after which the selected region(s) will have their own copies
- of only the data that they visually display on screen. The region
- will no longer be trimmable back to its original length after an Unlink
- operation, and the operation cannot be undone.
-
-