Move midi notes

Hi, With my trackpad on my macbook I could drag a midi note back and foward with three finger, I wonder how to that with a mouse, I have a MX Master 3S mouse to my Mac Studio, to move the midi notes back and foward, In the manual it said, with arrows key and when I do that the notes jumps 2.5 a bar back or foward. I have the grid set to 1/16.
I have now connect my mouse to Macbook and now can move midi notes back and foward, it must had been some settings that stop me doing that. Someone how knows what that could be.

I wonder also If there are a place there I can mark that every new midi instrument I load have the harware output connected?

Just to clarify, are you asking for a configuration how far left/right notes would be nudged when using arrow keys?

Regarding virtual instruments, when you create a new MIDI track with a virtual instrument, it gets connected to the master bus which itself is connected to hardware outputs. So please elaborate what other behavior you want.

It would be great to know to choose value of the nudge action with arrow key!

I wonder also why I couldā€™t move the note, I have search but I canā€™t find any settings for that. Now I have found it. :grinning:

Regarding virtual instrument I see what say but I canā€™t get any sound out from that instrument when it is set to master than go to that instrument and choose to cross in the hardware box.

I donā€™t think the nudge amount is configurable, at least not in the UI to the best of my knowledge.

Not sure what ā€œchoose to cross in the hardware boxā€ means. Please elaborate?

I mean only that I have to check the routing grid hardware output to obtain sound from the virtual instrument. As I now also have it is the Master is uncheck too.

See the NUDGE CLOCK here:

Note that you can right click on the clock to set it to musical time (Bars/Beats) which is probably more useful to you.

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Oh wait, so that applies to nudging notes too? Cool :slight_smile:

Iā€™m sorry, I looked at the screenshot and I donā€™t quite understand what you are telling me.

The way it works is all your projects are automatically created with the master bus that is automatically connected to the first pair of hardware outputs. If you choose to use a monitoring section, then the signal goes from the master bus to the monitor section, and then from the monitor section to hardware outputs. But all that happens automatically.

Then every track you create is automatically connected to the master bus. So in your case you create a MIDI track with NI Kontakt and the signal automatically goes from that track to the master bus, and then from the master bus to a pair of hardware outputs (via a monitor section, if you choose so).

What I see on your screenshot is that your master bus is no connected to hardware outputs. Instead you seems to be trying to connect trackā€™s outputs to hardware outputs directly. If that is the case, then it looks like a misconfiguration to me. But Iā€™m not even sure thatā€™s what you are doing because I donā€™t have enough information.

Either way, Iā€™d recommend having a read here: The Ardour Manual - Signal Routing.

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The image looks as when I have started Ardour and start a new emty session and started a midi track and with that also an instrument. As nothing is select there is no sound, you said it should. The funny thing is that this is on my Mac Studio but on Macbook it works now in the morning the first time without any re-routing or new selecting.

Well, thatā€™s interesting, I wonder what could be affecting this.

When there is no sound, do you see the meters on your master track jumping?

I have noticed something odd recently with macs and my students. I havenā€™t identified a consistent reason yet, but about half my students in the last class I held on Monday, when using the external headphone output on Sonoma, had 4 outputs on that device, of which the second two worked and the first two did not. I have yet to come up with a reason for this, but it was new on me when I looked into it, can you check and see if this might be the case for you as well? You would click on the Out 1/2 at the bottom of the master track mixer strip, and see if there is a second output listed there.

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Yes I can see master jumping!
Yes there is 1-2 output!
However I had to establish the bus master from the midi track to get sound. It should works automatic.

It does work automatically unless you told Ardour not to. Which quite a few new users do before realizing it was a mistake.

I donā€™t know what I have done to prevent Ardour to do its work. Perhaps you can tell me how I can set it back original funktion.

Thanks, this is a very valuable piece of information, Nudge Clock affecting notes is not mentioned anywhere in that documentation page.

Wouldnā€™t be better to move notes with the keyboard by the grid size by default? Notes and Regions can have very different ranges, also having to change the nudge clock back and forth when moving notes and regions alternatively is not a great workflow.

Luckily someone has already opened a request on the tracker: 0009336: why ? Nudge clock affect Nudge Notes / note should move by grid size - MantisBT

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Iā€™ve just fixed that in a branch and will hopefully merge to master later this week.

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Hi I have now uninstalled Ardour and installed Ardour again and now I can hear without any rerouting! :grinning: