X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=include%2Fstep-entry.html;h=975c3778ea1c230a69b42892436548e80627b046;hb=5b9b7ee27500ac1a111082973aa6a89d9de45b79;hp=22d4706ac35b56f913480ff8e9d94a1d33c119af;hpb=7a4c28bd8605e90876ebee619de364ab7001e405;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/include/step-entry.html b/include/step-entry.html index 22d4706..975c377 100644 --- a/include/step-entry.html +++ b/include/step-entry.html @@ -1,22 +1,31 @@
- 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.
-The dialog (quite closely modelled on Logic's) contains:
+ ++ 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 |