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Tips and Tricks
Useful editing techniques
Moving a note without transposing it
If you hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] while moving a note
(or a number of notes) sideways, moving is restricted to
horizontally only, i.e. you don’t have to worry about the
notes being transposed. You can also set up a key com-
mand for this. This is done in the Key Commands dialog
(Nudge category).
Moving and spacing several staves
If you have a number of staves that you want displayed
with an equal distance (for example, all strings of a grand
staff in a full orchestra score), this can be done using the
Position Info window:
1. Open the Preferences–Scores dialog and deactivate
the option “Global staff Spacing with [Alt Gr]/[Option]-
[Command]”.
2. In the score, select the staves you want to set to an
equal distance.
3. Open the Position Info window by clicking on the ruler.
4. Use the To Previous Staff or To Next Staff settings to
specify the desired distance between the staves.
All selected staves are spaced according to your settings.
• If you do this with the “Global staff Spacing with [Alt
Gr]/[Option]-[Command]” option activated, all staves in
the score are affected.
Polyphonic voicing
If you are working on a full score with more than one in-
strument in one staff (2 flutes, 2 trumpets etc.), you should
use polyphonic voices. And even if both instruments play
the same notes, you should insert notes for both instru-
ments (you can mute the notes of the second voice, if
playback is an issue). If you do this, it will be much easier
to extract single parts later by using the “Extract Voices”
command.
Using the bar handles
Double-clicking a bar handle opens the Bar Copy dialog.
This function is great for copying accents, but you can
also use it for copying drum phrases, etc. For more infor-
mation, see “Moving and duplicating with the bar handles”
on page 571.
• If you hold down [Shift] and double-click on a bar han-
dle, this and the next bar are selected.
This is handy when copying phrases of two or more bars in one go.
Copying a section with “invisibles”
If you want to copy and paste a section which contains
hidden elements, adjusted beams and stems etc., there
are two ways to proceed:
• Use the filter bar to make indicators appear in the score.
Then select these indicators together with the notes be-
fore you copy.
This ensures the notes are copied with their formatting etc.
• Double-click the bar handle of one of the bars, and
make sure all relevant event types are activated in the dia-
log. Then select the bars you want to copy by clicking their
bar handles, and copy them by [Alt]/[Option]-dragging the
bar handles.
For more information, see “Moving and duplicating with the bar handles”
on page 571.
Using “Scores Notes To MIDI”
This function converts the score data, as displayed, into
MIDI data. Let’s say for example that you have set up the
score so that it is displayed to 99% the way you want it to
be. Yet, that last 1% forces you to deactivate some of the
Staff Settings (like Clean Lengths, No Overlap or Auto
Quantize), which makes other parts of the score illegible.
In this case, try using the function “Scores Notes To
MIDI”. Note that you should work on a copy of the track!
For more information, see “Using “Scores Notes To MIDI””
on page 511.
Optimizing rests
If you have a number of consecutive empty bars, you can
replace them with one multiple rest. See “Multiple rests”
on page 606.