Reference Guide

1216 Notation and lyrics
Printing
Ghost strokes
In percussion notation, parentheses around a note mean that it is a ghost stroke, played very lightly
and barely heard. SONAR supports ghost strokes by displaying parentheses around any percussion
note event with velocity less than 32 (a fixed, arbitrary threshold). If necessary, you can adjust the
Vel+ parameter of the track and the velocities of the individual notes to effectively move this
threshold without changing the way the note sounds.
The following figure shows two tracks displaying ghost strokes.
Printing
The Staff view provides printing support of standard musical notation in nine staff sizes. The Staff
view prints general project information from the File Info dialog box (see “Labeling your projects” on
page 327) at the beginning of the score, including the song's title (or file name), subtitle (dedication),
playing instructions, author/composer, and copyright. In addition, SONAR identifies the tracks by
number and name, and numbers each measure and each page.
SONAR lets you select a size for your printed score. Engravers have nine standardized sizes of the
five-line staff. The vertical distance between the lines of each staff is called its rastral size, or
measurement. Each rastral size has a number and is used by publishers for a specific genre of
musical composition.
Number Trade names Genre usage
0 Commercial or Public Wire-bound manuscript
1 Giant or English Elementary band and orchestra books; instruction booklets
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