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Transcribing MIDI recordings
Staff settings
The first thing to do after opening the Score Editor is to
make initial staff settings. This is done on the Score Set-
tings–Staff page. 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.
Click the Staff button to open the Score Settings–Staff
page. The Staff page shows the current settings for the
staff on four tabs. For detailed information on the Staff Set-
tings page, see the chapter “Staff settings” on page 524.
Situations which require additional
techniques
The notes may not always appear in the score as you ex-
pect them to, initially. This is because there are a number
of situations which require special techniques and set-
tings. Below you can find a list of some of these and
where to find more information about handling them:
• Notes at the same position are considered to be part of
a chord. To get independent voicing (e.g. notes with dif-
ferent stem directions), such as for vocal material, you
need to use the polyphonic voicing feature, see the chap-
ter “Polyphonic voicing” on page 531.
Without and with polyphonic voicing
• If two notes beginning at the same position have different
lengths, the longer one will be displayed as a number of tied
notes. To avoid this, you will either have to use the No Over-
lap feature (see “No Overlap” on page 528) or polyphonic
voicing (see “Polyphonic voicing” on page 531).
• One note will often be displayed as two notes with a tie.
Please note that this is merely the way the program dis-
plays this note; only a single note is “stored”.
This single note in the Key Editor is displayed as two tied notes in the
Score Editor.
• Normally the program adds ties where necessary (if a
note stretches over a beat), but not always. For a “mod-
ern” notation of syncopated notes (less ties), you will need
to use the Syncopation feature, see “Syncopation” on
page 527.
The same note, without and with syncopation
• If you find that you want a long note to be displayed as
two or more tied notes, you can achieve this with the Cut
Notes tool. See “The Cut Notes tool” on page 550.
• If two notes on the same position are too close to each
other or if you want their order in the part reversed, you
can do this without affecting playback. See “Graphic mo-
ving of notes” on page 550.
• If a note has the wrong accidental, this can be changed.
See “Accidentals and enharmonic shift” on page 542.
• Stem direction and length are automatic, but you can
change them manually if you wish. See “Background:
Note stems” on page 541.
• If you need a split staff (e.g. when you are scoring for
piano), there are special techniques for this – see “Split
(piano) staves” on page 521 and “Polyphonic voicing” on
page 531.