Add simple guide on drawing MIDI regions and notes

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@ -128,12 +128,42 @@ Now you have a basic bass line you can repeat.
{{< figure src="en/bassline.png" alt="Initial bass line" >}}
<!-- ## TODO: Drawing sticks on the piano roll
## Drawing notes on the piano roll
If there is no existing region in your MIDI track, select the Draw mode,
left-click at the position where the region should start, drag to the point
where it should end, release the mouse button. Now you can draw and edit notes
inside the region. -->
Perhaps the easiest way to add notes to a MIDI track is to draw them on the
canvas.
1. Create a MIDI track.
2. Switch to the _Draw_ mode by pressing **D** or clicking the respective button
in the toolbar.
3. Click and drag on the canvas to create a MIDI region.
{{< figure src="en/draw-new-midi-region.gif" alt="Draw a new MIDI region" >}}
4. Point the mouse to where a note should begin, press and hold left/primary
mouse button and drag to the right as far as the note should go. Release the
mouse button.
{{< figure src="en/draw-new-midi-notes.gif" alt="Draw new MIDI notes" >}}
5. The top toolbar has some default settings for new notes: duration,
velocity, channel. You can change these settings before adding new notes: by
either choosing a preset in a drop-down list of by scrolling the mousewheel
over any of the three drop-down lists.
{{< figure src="en/midi-draw-toobar.png" alt="MIDI drawing toolbar" >}}
6. Repeat until you wrote down the melody.
If you are not accustomed to this type of entering notes and mentally rotating
the keyboard by 90° clock wise seems difficult for you, try clicking on the
vertical piano keyboard widget to listen to notes until it grows on you.
While in the _Draw_ mode, you also can do some leight editing: select and
resize individual notes, drag them around, adjust velocity, use the
right-click menu to perform various transformations.
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