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45 lines
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<h2>Adding new notes</h2>
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<p>
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In general, you will probably do most MIDI editing with the mouse in object
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mode. This allows you to select notes, copy, move or delete them and alter
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their properties (see below). But at some point, you're going to want to
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<em>add</em> notes to a MIDI region using the mouse, and if they are to be
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anything other than a fixed length, this means dragging with the mouse.
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Since this would normally be a selection operation if the mouse is in object
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mode, there needs to be some way for you to tell Ardour that you are trying
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to <dfn>draw</dfn> new notes within a MIDI region. Ardour provides two ways
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do this. One is to leave the mouse in object mode and
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<kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag. The other, useful if you plan to
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enter a lot of notes for a while, is to switch the mouse into
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<kbd class="menu">Draw Notes</kbd> mode, which will now interpret any drags
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and clicks as requests to add a new note. For obvious reasons, you cannot
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use Draw Notes mode while using region-level editing.
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</p>
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<p>So, to summarize:</p>
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<dl class="wide-table">
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<dt>Selecting, moving, copying, trimming, deleting <em>regions</em></dt>
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<dd>
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leave <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd> disabled, use object,
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range or other mouse modes
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</dd>
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<dt>Selecting, moving, copying trimming, deleting <em>notes</em></dt>
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<dd>enable <kbd class="menu">Note Level Editing</kbd>and use mouse object mode</dd>
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<dt>Adding new notes</dt>
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<dd>
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enable "Note Level Editing" and then either
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<ul>
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<li>use mouse object mode and <kbd class="mouse mod1">Left</kbd>-drag,
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or</li>
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<li>use mouse draw mode.</li>
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</ul>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<p>
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Note that is also a
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<a href="@@step-entry">a step entry editor</a>
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allowing you to enter notes from a virtual keyboard and lots more besides.
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</p>
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