Resizing the piano roll "width"

[sg1 (sg)]

I am wondering about resizing the panes within the editor window, in particular the one associated with the piano roll.

In my initial setup, I was able to see more of the horizontal portion of the piano keys (the “width”) from the piano roll, and this was important as the names of the elements of a DrumGizmo drumkit are mapped to certain keys. For some reason, the width is now minimal, as shown is the screenshot below, and that apparently is what prevents seeing the mappings.

Is there a way to resize this? Please note I am not talking about the option (f) which shows all the octaves of the keyboard, i.e. adjusting the “height” if you will, but rather how to adjust the “width”. Thanks!

[paul (Paul Davis)]

You cannot adjust the width. It will vary if there is MIDNAM note name data to display.

[Schmitty2005]

I think you also have to be in hotkey ‘e’ edit mode as well for the notes and names to show up. It may also work in hotkey ‘d’ or draw mode. I cannot verify right now.

[sg1 (sg)]

I forgot to specify that I am using Ardour (rev 8.4.0~ds1-2ubuntu8) Intel 64-bit.

Paul Davis, Schmitty2005, both your answers appear correct, here is the screenshot when in draw mode (the same thing happens in edit mode, minus the helpful tooltip which shows more information, in green):

The MIDNAM text for the hovered note 51 is “Ride_whisker”, fully visible in the tooltip but only partially so in the piano roll, which intuitively makes one wonder how that portion can be resized. Also, some online screenshots show a piano roll with more of the key visible (visibly, we can see the white keys meet around the black keys), such as in this other screenshot, so I am not sure how that is achieved (though it could be using a different version of Ardour):
https://discourse.ardour.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/bb64090f923e8650d6bf76975110efec460fe63b.png

Anyway, knowing that I can see the text in edit or draw mode is helpful enough for me, so thanks for both your answers!

[paul (Paul Davis)]

There is no way to resize the width.

The way we draw keys was modified sometime around version 8. If you see screenshots of older versions, you will see more “physical keyboard” style drawing. We stopped that because it doesn’t lend itself to future work on non-western tunings.