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+- 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. -
-- The step entry dialog is accessed via a right click - context menu on the rec-enable button, because step entry is related - to recording MIDI data. Step editing and recording MIDI via the - track's MIDI port cannot happen simultaneously. + Entering notes in Ardour can be done by using a connected MIDI device like a MIDI keyboard or pad controller, or by using the mouse. A third option, which provides for fine-grained control, precision and speed comes from using Ardour's Step Entry dialog.
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+- The dialog (quite closely modelled on Logic's) contains: + The step entry dialog is accessed by right-clicking on the ● (Rec-Enable) button of the MIDI track to be edited and selecting Step Entry from the menu that appears. +
+ ++ Step editing and recording MIDI via the track's MIDI port cannot happen simultaneously. +
+ ++ The dialog (closely modelled on Logic's) contains:
- 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. -
-- The default key bindings for this (configured in step_editing.bindings) are: + Almost 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 + typically not necessary—even for complex data entry. The default key + bindings are:
| grave | octave 0 |
| 1 to 9 | octave 1 to 9 |
| 0 | octave 10 |
| ` (grave accent) | Set octave 0 |
| 1 to 9 | Set octave 1 to 9 |
| 0 | Set octave 10 |
| F1 | note length whole |
| F2 | note length half |
| F3 | note length third |
| F4 to F8 | note length quarter to sixtyfourth |
| f1 | Set note length to whole |
| f2 | Set note length to half |
| f3 | Set note length to third |
| f4 to f8 | Set note length to quarter to sixtyfourth |
| a | insert C |
| w | insert C ♯ |
| s | insert D |
| e | insert D ♯ |
| d | insert E |
| f | insert F |
| t | insert F ♯ |
| g | insert G |
| y | insert G ♯ |
| h | insert A |
| u | insert A ♯ |
| j | insert B |
| a | Insert C |
| w | Insert C♯ |
| s | Insert D |
| e | Insert D♯ |
| d | Insert E |
| f | Insert F |
| t | Insert F♯ |
| g | Insert G |
| y | Insert G♯ |
| h | Insert A |
| u | Insert A♯ |
| j | Insert B |
| Tab | insert rest |
| Primary Tab | insert snap rest |
| BackSpace | back |
| tab | Insert a one note length rest |
| tab | Insert a one grid unit rest |
| backspace | Moves the cursor back one note length |
| z | note velocity 𝆏𝆏𝆏 |
| x | note velocity 𝆏𝆏 |
| c | note velocity 𝆏 |
| v | note velocity 𝆐𝆏 |
| b | note velocity 𝆐𝆑 |
| n | note velocity 𝆑 |
| m | note velocity 𝆑𝆑 |
| comma | note velocity 𝆑𝆑𝆑 |
| z | Set note velocity 𝆏𝆏𝆏 |
| x | Set note velocity 𝆏𝆏 |
| c | Set note velocity 𝆏 |
| v | Set note velocity 𝆐𝆏 |
| b | Set note velocity 𝆐𝆑 |
| n | Set note velocity 𝆑 |
| m | Set note velocity 𝆑𝆑 |
| , (comma) | Set note velocity 𝆑𝆑𝆑 |
| Up | next note velocity |
| Down | prev note velocity |
| Primary Up | next note length |
| Primary Down | prev note length |
| apostrophe | toggle triplet |
| period | toggle dotted |
| Primary period | no dotted |
| bar | toggle chord |
| ↑ | Set next note velocity |
| ↓ | Set prev note velocity |
| ↑ | Set next note length |
| ↓ | Set prev note length |
| ' | Toggle triplet |
| . | Set single dotted |
| . | Clear dotted |
| | (bar) | Toggle chord |