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Additional note and rest formatting
3. Set the denominator, if necessary.
4. Activate “For Grouping Only”.
The time signature dialog with “For Grouping Only” activated
5. Click OK.
Regular grouping of a number of eighth notes or smaller
(“Beam”)
If the grouping the program assigns is not the one you
want, you can put any selection of eighth notes or smaller
under a beam:
1. Select at least two notes, where you want the beam to
begin and end.
All notes between these two notes will be grouped under a beam.
2. Click the Group Notes icon on the extended toolbar or
right-click on one of the notes to be grouped and select
“Beam” from the “Group/Ungroup” submenu of the con-
text menu.
The Group Notes icon
Before and after grouping.
• Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the
Grouping dialog, allowing you to adjust the “note value”
for the symbols.
Grouping quarter notes or larger under a beam
(“Brillenbass”)
It is also possible to use the grouping feature for notes
that are not displayed with beams (quarter notes, half
notes, etc.). The result are so called “Brillenbass” sym-
bols, commonly used for indicating repeated accompani-
ment patterns, etc.
• Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the
Grouping dialog, allowing you to adjust the “note value”
for the symbols.
Grouping notes using Repeats
To show Repeats for the grouped notes, proceed as
follows:
1. Show the display filter bar in the Score Editor (by click-
ing the “Show Filter View” button on the toolbar) and make
sure the “Grouping” checkbox is activated.
Now, you will see the text “Grouping” below all groups you have created.
2. Select the desired notes.
3. Right-click on one of the notes and from the Group/
Ungroup submenu, select “Repeat…”.
4. In the dialog that appears, use the radio buttons to se-
lect the desired note value for the repeats.
In this example, the “Repeat” feature is used to display two pairs of six-
teenth notes as two eighth notes with “repeat bars”. Note that the second
and fourth sixteenth note have only been hidden – playback is not affected!
5. Click OK to close the dialog.
• Double-clicking on the “Grouping” text opens the
Grouping dialog, allowing you to adjust the “note value”
for the symbols.
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Note that the “For Grouping Only” setting only af-
fects the way the numerator is divided. Any changes
you make to the “sum” of the numerator number or
the denominator will result in a change of actual time
signature in the project. If you need a grouping which
cannot be entered in the current time signature, you
will have to group notes manually, see below.