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Entering and editing notes
Split (piano) staves
Setting up the split staff
1. Make a staff active.
2. Open the Score Settings–Staff page for the staff and
select the Polyphonic tab.
3. From the Staff Mode pop-up, select Split.
4. Set the Splitpoint value to a suitable note.
All notes below this note value will be put on the lower clef, all above will
be put on the upper clef.
Split mode selected.
• If the default piano clef settings for the upper and lower
staff are not what you want, you can adjust these settings
now (or you can make key and clef adjustments directly in
the score, see “Setting key, clef and time signature” on
page 496).
5. Make whatever additional staff settings you need.
These will apply to both the upper and lower staves of the split system.
6. Click Apply.
Before and after setting a split at C3.
Adding notes
This is done just as on a single system, see “Adding and
editing notes” on page 515. Please note the following:
• When you enter a note, use the mouse position box (on the
toolbar) to determine the pitch. Whether it ends up on the up-
per or lower staff has nothing to do with where you aim with
the mouse. The Splitpoint setting always decides if a note
goes on the upper or lower clef. If you change the splitpoint,
this will affect existing notes, see below.
• Sometimes a fixed splitpoint isn’t good enough. You might
want to put two notes with the same pitch on different staves
in different parts of the score. To achieve this you need to use
polyphonic voicing, see “Polyphonic voicing” on page 531.
Changing the splitpoint
1. Open the Score Settings–Staff page for the system
you are working on.
2. Select the Polyphonic tab.
3. Change the Splitpoint value.
4. Click Apply.
Now, some notes that were previously on the lower staff
will be on the upper, or vice versa.
Strategies: Multiple staves
As described above, when you have parts on several
tracks selected in the Project window, these will be put on
one staff each, when you open the Score Editor. This al-
lows you to work on several staves in parallel.
Working with several staves is not much different from
working with one. Below follow some guidelines that apply
specifically to working with multiple staves.
Score settings–Staff page
• The settings on the Score Settings–Staff page are local to
each staff. You can have the Score Settings dialog open and
select each staff in turn to make settings – just remember to
click Apply before selecting another staff, otherwise your
changes will be lost.