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Entering and editing notes
About this chapter
In this chapter you will learn:
• How to make various settings for how notes are displayed.
• How to enter notes.
• How to use tools and settings to make the score as legible as
possible.
• How to set up a split (piano) staff.
• How to work with multiple staves.
Score settings
Before you start entering notes, you need to make some
initial staff settings in addition to those described in the
chapter “The basics” on page 490. To understand why
and how these settings and the note data in the score in-
teract, please read the chapter “How the Score Editor
works” on page 485.
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.
The Score Settings dialog shows the current settings for
the active staff.
Applying settings and selecting other staves
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 Always click Apply before making another staff active
– otherwise your settings will be lost!
Staff presets
When you want to reuse settings made for one track in
other tracks, you will save some time by creating a staff
preset (see “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 via 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 the staff. Use them as they
are, or as starting points for your own settings.
Suggested initial settings
When you start out entering notes, your staff settings
should make your score display the notes as entered. We
suggest the following:
You will find out later how to adapt these settings in detail
to make the score read as you want it to.
Ö It is very important that you understand how the dis-
play quantize values for notes and rests interact with the
score. If you select too large a notes/rests value, the notes
you “click in” may not appear as intended.
Please read “How the Score Editor works” on page 485. If you have
mixed triplets and straight notes, see “Display quantize” on page 505.
Option Description
Names As desired
Display Quantize: Notes 64
Display Quantize: Rests 64
Auto Quantize Activated
Syncopation Off
Consolidate Rests Off
Clean Lengths Off
No Overlap Off
Shuffle Off
Key As desired
Clef As desired
Auto Clef Activate this if you want the program to
select a treble or bass clef automatically.
Display Transpose 0
Options tab settings As is
Polyphonic tab settings Staff Mode: Single (For split staves, see
“Split (piano) staves” on page 523.)
Tablature tab settings Tablature Mode deactivated