Upgrade Manual

Chapter 3: QuickStart Tutorial

Splitter Bar

A vertical Splitter Bar sits between the Note Editing and Graphic Event panels. To maximize the Note Editing

panel, drag the Splitter down. To maximize the Graphic Event panel for more accurate Event editing, drag the

Splitter up.

Note Selection

You can click on individual notes, and also Shift-click or Ctrl-click to select multiple notes.

You can make a “box selection” by clicking on white space and drawing a rectangle around notes.

Note Editing

Move the mouse cursor over the left side of a Note, then click-drag horizontally to edit the note's start time. To drag

a group of selected notes, hold Shift while dragging the head of one of the notes, and all of the selection will follow!

Move the mouse cursor over the right side of a note, then click-drag horizontally to edit the note's duration. To drag

a group of selected notes, hold Shift while dragging the tail of one of the Notes.

Move the mouse cursor over the center of a note, then click-drag vertically to edit the note's pitch. To transpose a

group of selected notes, hold Shift while dragging the center of one of the Notes.

Insert a Note

Hold Shift+Ctrl, and then click where you want a new note.

Delete a Note

Select one or more notes, and then tap the computer's Delete key. You Can also Right-Click and choose the "Delete

Selected Events" item in the popup menu.

Undo Mistakes

You can use Edit | Undo (or Ctrl+Z) to recover from edits gone horribly wrong. You can also Right-Click and

choose the "Undo" item in the popup menu.

If you make a mistake when inserting an event, it is often easy to fix by re-editing the event. For instance, if you

intended to insert a C note, but accidentally inserted a B note, it is trivial to drag the new B note up to C.

After inserting events, the new events are selected (highlighted red). Therefore, you can also tap the Delete key to

remove accidentally inserted events.

Graphic Event Editing

You can edit the value or time of individual graphic data items. To edit the value, move the mouse cursor over the

top half of an event, and click-drag vertically. To edit the time of the event, move the cursor over the bottom half of

an event, and click-drag horizontally. There are two tools for inserting graphic events, the Line Tool and the Pencil

Tool.

Line Tool

Move the mouse cursor over white space in the Graphic Event panel. The cursor becomes a Line Tool. Click and

then drag a line. When the mouse button is released, events are inserted or modified to fit the line. This illustrates

the effect of the Line Tool for editing the Velocity of the first 6 notes: