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Tutorial 5 – Working with music notation
Changing the duration of a note
1. Right click the note head to open the Note Properties dialog box.
2. In the Duration field, enter in the number of ticks you want for the note, then click OK to close
the Note Properties dialog box.
The following table shows the relationship between note durations and ticks (with the default
timebase of 960 ticks per quarter note).
Deleting a note
1. Select the Smart tool or the Erase tool in the Control Bar.
2. Do one of the following:
• With the Smart tool , right-click a note to erase a single note, or keep the right mouse
button pressed and drag over notes to erase multiple notes.
• With the Erase tool , click a note to erase a single note, or drag over notes to erase
multiple notes.
Note Duration in ticks
Whole 4:000
Half 2:000
Quarter 1:000
Eighth 480
Sixteenth 240
Thirty-second 120