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Entering and editing notes
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 allows
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.
• 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 525 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 516.
Adding notes
This is done just as on a single system, see “Adding and
editing notes” on page 514. 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 staff. If you change the splitpoint,
this will affect existing notes, see below.
• Sometimes a fixed splitpoint is not 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.
• 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 519.
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
Proceed as follows:
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 559).
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.
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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.