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Transcribing MIDI recordings
Staff settings
The first thing to do after opening the Score Editor is to
make initial staff settings. This is done on the Score Set-
tings–Staff page. There are three ways to open the Score
Settings dialog:
• Make the staff active, pull down the Scores menu and
select “Settings…”.
• Double-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff.
Please note that when the option “Double-click on staff flips between full
score/part” is activated in the Preferences dialog (Scores-Editing page),
double-clicking will instead switch between display of either the whole
score or the current voice. If your score shows more than one track, dou-
ble-clicking will display this track and hide all others. If your score shows
only one track, double-clicking will either show the layout, that contains
most of the tracks or, if no multi-track layout exists, all tracks.
• Make the staff active and click the “i” button on the ex-
tended toolbar.
For this to work, make sure no notes or symbols are selected – other-
wise, clicking the “i” button may open a dialog with settings for the se-
lected object instead.
Click the Staff button to open the Score Settings–Staff
page. The Staff page shows the current settings for the
staff on four tabs.
The Main tab
The Main tab of the Staff page.
Applying settings and selecting other staves
The Score Settings dialog is non-modal (see “About dia-
logs in the Score Editor” on page 496). This means you
click Apply to apply the settings you’ve made to the active
staff.
To make settings for another staff, simply make it active in
the score (by clicking anywhere in the staff or by using the
up/down arrow keys on the computer keyboard). How-
ever, please note:
Ö Remember to click Apply before making another staff
active – otherwise your settings will be lost!
Staff presets
When you know you will reuse settings made for one track
in other tracks, you will save some time by creating a staff
preset. This is described in “Working with staff presets”
on page 527.
Ö There are a number of staff presets available, set up to
suit various instruments, etc.
The presets are accessed from the Presets pop-up menu on the Score
Settings–Staff page, or from the staff context menu, opened by right-
clicking on the blue rectangle to the left of a staff. Use them as they are,
or as starting points for your own settings.
Names
Allows you to specify a “long” and a “short” name for the
staff. The long name is shown for the very first system for
the staff in the score (at the start of the project), while the
short name is shown for the remaining systems.
• Whether the names should be shown at all is set on the
Layout page of the Score Settings dialog (see “Staff na-
mes” on page 592).
There, you can also choose to use the names of the edited MIDI tracks
instead.
• If you only want the “long name” to be shown (i.e. if you
don’t want a name shown for each system in the score),
simply delete the short name.