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Entering and editing notes
• If several staves share settings, you will save some time by us-
ing staff presets. Set up the staff settings for the first staff, and
save them as a preset. This preset can then be applied to any
of the other staves, one at a time. See “Working with staff pre-
sets” on page 527 for details.
Selecting notes
• You can select notes from one or several staves at the same
time, using any of the selection methods, see “Selecting notes”
on page 517.
Adding notes
• You can add notes to any staff by clicking on it with the Insert
Note tool. The active staff rectangle will move to the staff
where you input the note.
• If you need to enter a note with a very high or low pitch, which
makes it wind up on the wrong staff when you click, first enter
a note with the wrong pitch, and then edit its pitch as de-
scribed in the section “Editing pitches of individual notes” on
page 520.
Inserting and editing clefs, keys or
time signatures
It is possible to insert a change of key, clef, or time signa-
ture anywhere in the score:
Inserting a symbol on one staff
1. Open the “Clefs etc.” tab in the Inspector.
This contains clef, key and time signature symbols.
The “Clefs etc.” tab in the Inspector.
2. Select the symbol you wish to insert.
When you move the mouse over the score display, the pointer takes on
the form of a pencil (see also “About the Pencil tool” on page 562).
3. Move the mouse over the staff where you want to in-
sert a new symbol.
Use the mouse position box to find the exact location. The vertical posi-
tion is of no relevance as long as you click somewhere in the staff. Time
signature changes can only be inserted at the beginning of a bar.
4. Click the mouse button to insert the symbol.
Inserting a symbol on all staves
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when you insert a symbol
with the Pencil tool, it will be inserted at this position on all
staves currently being edited in the Score Editor. Note:
Ö Time signature changes are always inserted on all
tracks in the score.
Or rather, they are inserted on the tempo track, which affects all tracks.
Ö For key changes, display transpose is taken into
account.
This allows you to set all staves to a new key and the staves set to dis-
play transpose will still show the correct key after the key change.
Ö If some of the staves are bracketed (straight brackets
only, as set up on the Score Settings–Layout page, see
“Adding brackets and braces” on page 611), inserting a
symbol for one of these staves will insert it for all other
staves within the bracket.
Staves outside the bracket will not be affected.
Editing keys, clefs and time signatures
If you double-click on a symbol, a dialog appears allowing
you to change the settings for it.
If you hold down [Alt]/[Option] when double-clicking, all
symbols at the same position are changed accordingly.
With key signatures, the display transpose value is taken
into account as described above.
• On the Score Settings–Project page (Notation sub-
page), you will find several options for how key, clef and
time signature changes should be displayed.
You can also adjust the automatic spacing between these symbols in the
Spacings subpage. See the dialog help for details.
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Inserting a symbol at position 1.1.1.0 is the same as
changing the staff settings which are stored in the
track. Inserting anywhere else adds the change to
the part.