[Ardour-Users] copy/paste MIDI notes

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:48 PM, fred <f.rech at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> when create MIDI track, it will be usefull to be able to select, copy and
> paste some notes.
>
> Google and the search function in Ardour site are not friends this time :(
>
> How can one paste at a choosen time (e.g. : first beat of a bar)) the notes
> selected and
> copyied before, in the same selected track and region ???

here's what you need to have in your mind:

* all work with Audio or MIDI data involves working with a region OR
within a region
* this means you can either:

       1) create a region containing the data you want, and then cut
and paste the region (this is the normal editing mode)
       2) copy/cut MIDI data from within a region and paste it into
the same or other region (internal/note edit mode)

* the corollary to the above: you cannot paste MIDI data into an empty
part of a track, because there is no region there to paste into
* more or less any click on a MIDI track that might have otherwise
done something interesting, but finds no region where you clicked,
       will create a new 1 bar region.