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Entering and editing notes
Lengthening a note by gluing two notes together
You can create unusual note length values by gluing notes
of the same pitch together.
1. Insert the notes you want to glue together (if they don’t
already exist).
2. Select the Glue tool from the toolbar or Quick menu.
The Glue tool on the Quick menu.
3. Click on the first note.
This note will now be tied to the first following note with the same pitch.
4. If you want to glue more notes, click again.
By gluing together a quarter note, an eighth note and a sixteenth note…
…you get a double dotted quarter note.
Changing the display length
If you want to change the displayed length of notes with-
out affecting how they play back, the first thing to try is to
adjust display quantize, either for the whole staff or for a
separate section, using the Display Quantize tool (see
“Inserting display quantize changes” on page 509).
But you can also make display length adjustments to indi-
vidual notes in the Set Note Info dialog:
1. Double-click on the note.
The Set Note Info dialog opens.
2. Locate the “Displ. Length” setting.
By default, this is set to “Auto”, i.e. the note will be displayed according
to its actual length (and the display quantize settings).
3. Double-click in the value field and enter a new length
value (displayed in bars, beats, sixteenth notes and ticks).
To set the display length to “Auto” again, scroll the value down to zero.
4. Click Apply and close the dialog.
The note will now be displayed according to its display length setting.
However, the display quantize settings still apply!
Splitting a note in two
If you have two notes strung together by a tie, and click on
the “tied” note head with the Split tool, the note will be di-
vided into two, with the respective length of the “main”
and the tied note.
Before and after splitting a tied note.
Working with the Display Quantize
tool
There are instances when you will want different staff set-
tings for different sections of the track. The settings on the
Score Settings–Staff page are valid for the entire track,
but by using the Display Quantize tool, you are able to in-
sert changes and exceptions wherever you like. This is de-
scribed in detail in the section “Inserting display quantize
changes” on page 509.
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Make sure you have display quantize values for notes
and rests that allow you to display notes of the cre-
ated note value.