11.5

202 MIDI editor
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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 11.5 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 11.5 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.