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Transcribing MIDI recordings
Score Drum Map
These settings are all described in the chapter “Scoring
for drums” on page 615.
System Sizes
This section allows you to set the number of system lines
and to control spacing between the lines. See “Creating
tablature manually” on page 621 for an example of how
this can be used with tablature.
Fixed Stems
Activate this if you want all note stems to end at the same
vertical position. The Up and Down fields let you specify
the desired positions for stems in the respective direction,
using the graphic figure to the right as a guideline.
Note Limits
Use the Low and High fields to specify a note range. In the
active staff, any notes outside this range will be displayed
in a different color. When writing a score for a specific in-
strument, this makes it easy to find notes that are outside
of this instrument’s note range.
Ö If the option “Hide Notes beyond Limits” is activated in
the Preferences dialog (Scores-Editing page), any notes
outside the Note Limits range will be hidden.
The Polyphonic tab
This is where you activate and set up split (piano) systems
or polyphonic voices (several independent score lines in
the same staves). See the chapter “Polyphonic voicing”
on page 531.
The Tablature tab
This contains settings for creating tablature scores. See
the chapter “Creating tablature” on page 619.
Situations which require additional
techniques
The notes may not always appear in the score as you ex-
pect them to, initially. This is because there are a number
of situations which require special techniques and set-
tings. Below you can find a list of some of these and
where to find more information about handling them:
• Notes at the same position are considered to be part of
a chord. To get independent voicing (e.g. notes with dif-
ferent stem directions), such as for vocal material, you
need to use the polyphonic voicing feature, see the chap-
ter “Polyphonic voicing” on page 531.
Without and with polyphonic voicing.
• If two notes beginning at the same position have different
lengths, the longer one will be displayed as a number of tied
notes. To avoid this, you will either have to use the No Over-
lap feature (see “No Overlap” on page 506) or polyphonic
voicing (see “Polyphonic voicing” on page 531).
• One note will often be displayed as two notes with a tie.
Please note that this is merely the way the program dis-
plays this note; only a single note is “stored”.
This single note in the Key Editor is displayed as two tied notes in the
Score Editor.
• Normally the program adds ties where necessary (if a
note stretches over a beat), but not always. For a “mod-
ern” notation of syncopated notes (less ties), you will need
to use the Syncopation feature, see “Syncopation” on
page 505.
The same note, without and with syncopation.
• If you find that you want a long note to be displayed as
two or more tied notes, you can achieve this with the Cut
Notes tool. See “The Cut Notes tool” on page 551.