11.0

MIDI editor 205
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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 11 Producer 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 11 Producer
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.