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title: Fundamental Concepts
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2014-02-18 14:12:28 -05:00
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<p>Ardour's MIDI editing is based on two basic principles:</p>
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<li>Editing should be done without having to enter a new window</li>
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<li>
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Editing should be able to carried out completely with the keyboard,
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or completely with the mouse, or with any combination of the two.
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</li>
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</ol>
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<p>
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Currently, MIDI editing is primarily restricted to note data. Other
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kinds of data (controller events, sysex data) are present and can be
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added and deleted, but not actually edited.
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</p>
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<h2>Fundamentals of MIDI Editing in Ardour 3</h2>
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<p>
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MIDI, just like audio, exists in <dfn>regions</dfn>. MIDI regions
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behave like audio regions: they can be moved, trimmed, copied (cloned),
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or deleted. Ardour allows either editing MIDI (or audio) regions, or MIDI
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region content (the notes), but never both at the same time. The
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<kbd>e</kbd> key (by default) toggles between <dfn>region level</dfn>
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and <dfn>note level</dfn> editing, as will double-clicking on a MIDI region.
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</p>
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<p class="note">
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One very important thing to note: editing note information in Ardour
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occurs in only a single region. There is no way currently to edit in note
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data for multiple regions at the same time, so for example you cannot select
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notes in several regions and then delete them all, nor can you copy-and-paste
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notes from one region to another. You can, of course, copy and paste the
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region(s), just as with audio.
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</p>
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