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How the Score Editor works
Permanent alteration of MIDI data
As a last resort, you can resize, quantize or move the ac-
tual note events. However, this would result in the music
not playing back like it originally did. Often it is possible to
get the score to look the way you want without altering any
MIDI data.
Summary
This closes our discussion on the basic concept of display
quantizing. There are a number of other special situations
which require more advanced techniques, which you will
find out about in the next chapters. You will also read
about other settings which work along the same lines as
display quantize but each with its own application. These
are called “interpretation options”.
Entering notes by hand vs. recording
notes
Sometimes you will enter and edit notes by hand (or rather
using the mouse and/or the computer keyboard) and at
other times you will record them from a MIDI keyboard.
Most of the time, you will do a combination of both. In the
chapter “Transcribing MIDI recordings” on page 502 you
will find out how to make a recorded score as legible as
possible without performing any permanent changes to
the MIDI data. The chapter “Entering and editing notes”
on page 512 shows you how to enter and edit notes using
the mouse. In real life, even if you have recorded the piece
perfectly, you will often have to do some permanent edit-
ing to your recording before printing. Which leads to this
conclusion:
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You will have to read both chapters in order to un-
derstand how to produce legible scores!