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