+ - 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.
- 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. You cannot simultaneously step edit and record MIDI via the - track's MIDI port. + 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, so the track should not + be rec-armed.
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-The dialog (quite closely modelled on Logic's) contains:
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+ + The dialog (quite 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. +
- 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. + The default key bindings for this (configured in step_editing.bindings) are:
+| grave | octave 0 |
| 1 to 9 | octave 1 to 9 |
| 0 | octave 10 |
| F1 | note length whole |
| F2 | note length half |
| F3 | note length third |
| F4 to F8 | note length 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 |
| Tab | insert rest |
| Primary Tab | insert snap rest |
| BackSpace | back |
| z | note velocity 𝆏𝆏𝆏 |
| x | note velocity 𝆏𝆏 |
| c | note velocity 𝆏 |
| v | note velocity 𝆐𝆏 |
| b | note velocity 𝆐𝆑 |
| n | note velocity 𝆑 |
| m | note velocity 𝆑𝆑 |
| comma | 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 |