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Insert notation symbols
Clef symbols can be inserted at the current cursor position by pressing the
corresponding clef symbol in the active system.
Delete notation symbol
Notation symbols such as clef and pitch cannot be selected, since they are meta
information for the notation display and no MIDI events have been allocated to them.
They can also be deleted by clicking them with the eraser (or the right mouse button).
Adjusting and optimizing the score
Samplitude Music Studio 2013 automatically generates a notation display from the
MIDI events contained in the MIDI object. This is always correct with regard to pitch
and position. However, this does not mean that the notation can be read optimally,
since displaying note lengths also plays an important role in this context. In this case,
the notation permits more interpretation flexibility so that the user usually has to
intervene. The illustration shows a typical example of how poor a readable
transformation of a sixteenth note piano sequence would look in notation.
This representation may be correct, but it is not readable. Why is that? The MIDI
events contain very precise information on the start of a note, i.e. its length and pitch,
which has to be taken into account during playback. It may influence the groove of a
song if the notes are always slightly shorter than sixteenth notes. If this were to be
displayed correctly in the notation, then the score would be unreadable as in the
example above. The MIDI events also do not contain information on whether the gap
between two notes is a real rest, its harmonic correlations (pitch), and the
characteristics of the dynamic sequences. This is why automatic processing of
notation always differs from what would be ideal. Samplitude Music Studio 2013
includes a number of automatically and manually controllable functions for making it
easier to read the notation. The reworked version of the the above score illustration
shows how big the difference can be.
Note allocation in multiple staves
The term "Stave" refers to an individual line within a stave as well as all staves of a
score. In cases where it is important to be able to differentiate a score and a staff from
one another, we use the term "Stave" for the score and "staff" for a single system.
What is meant by a "Stave" can often be interpreted from this relation, for example, in
a two-handed piano piece, "upper" or "lower" systems are referenced.
Samplitude Music Studio 2013 provides multiple systems, e.g. for piano notation, or
entire scores which can possibly be comprised of up to 16 individual systems.