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Transcribing MIDI recordings
Shuffle
In jazz it is very common to score a shuffled beat as
straight notes, simply to make it more legible.
When the Shuffle flag is activated, the program searches
for eighth note or sixteenth note pairs where the second
note is played late (with a “swing feel” or as the third note
in a triplet). Such pairs are displayed as regular eighth or
sixteenth notes instead of triplet-based figures.
Without and with Shuffle.
Display transpose
This is used when preparing parts for instruments that are
not scored at the actual concert key. For example, if you
want the note C3 to be played by an alto sax, you have to
score it as an A3 – nine semitones up. Luckily, the display
transpose setting takes care of this for you:
• Use the pop-up menu to select the instrument for which
you’re scoring.
• If the pop-up menu doesn’t list the needed instrument, you
can set the desired transposition with the Semitones value
field.
Ö The display transpose setting doesn’t affect playback
or the actual pitch of the notes – it only changes how they
are displayed and printed.
• If you want to set a different key symbol, e.g. when scor-
ing for french horn, activate the “Local Keys” option.
• You can disable display transpose by clicking on the
button “Disable Display Transpose” in the toolbar of the
Score Editor.
For more details, see “Transposing instruments” on page
500.
The Options tab
The Options tab of the Staff page.
The Options tab contains additional settings for the staff.
Below you can find a brief description of these, with refer-
ences to more detailed explanations.
Switches
Option Description
Flat Beams Activate this when you want the beams over notes to be
flat (as opposed to slanted). See “Beam appearance and
slant settings” on page 550.
No Beams Activate this when you don’t want any beaming at all on
the staff (for example for vocal scoring). See “Turning be-
aming on/off” on page 547.
Beam
Subgroups
Use this when you want sixteenth notes displayed under
a beam to be divided into groups of four notes. See
“Handling beam groups” on page 550.
Without and with Beam Subgroups.
16th
Subgroups
Use this when you want even smaller subgroups of six-
teenth notes. This setting has no effect if Beam Sub-
groups is deactivated.
As above, but with 16th Subgroups activated.