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The MIDI editors
The extended toolbar
• To show or hide the extended toolbar, click the “Set up
Window Layout” button and activate or deactivate the
Tools option.
Note value buttons
Click one of these to select a note value for input. The “T”
and “.” options are for triplet and dotted note values. You
can also press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click one of the note
value buttons – this will resize all selected notes to the
note value you choose.
Enharmonic Shift
Allows you to manually select whether a note is shown
with flat or sharp accidentals, see
“Enharmonic Shift” on
page 417.
The score display
The main area of the Score Editor window shows the
notes in the edited parts on one or several staves.
• If you are editing one or several parts on the same track,
as much of them as possible is shown on several staves –
one above the other – just as with a score on paper.
• If you are editing parts on several tracks, they are put on
a grand staff (multiple staves, tied together by bar lines).
• The number of bars across the screen depends on the
size of the window and the number of notes in each bar.
The maximum number of bars across the page is four.
• The end of the last part is indicated by a double bar line.
• Unlike the other MIDI editors, the Score Editor does not
have a ruler.
A conventional ruler would not make sense, since there is no exact rela-
tionship between a note’s horizontal position in the score and its musical
position in the project.
Score Editor operations
Opening the Score Editor
To open one or several parts in the Score Editor, select
one or several tracks or any number of parts (on the same
or different tracks), and select “Open Score Editor” from
the Scores submenu of the MIDI menu. The default key
command for this is [Ctrl]/[Command]-[R].
• You can also select the Score Editor as your default ed-
itor, allowing you to open it by double-clicking parts.
This is done with the Default Edit Action pop-up menu in the Preferences
dialog (Event Display–MIDI page).
About editing parts on different tracks
If you have selected parts on two or more tracks and open
the Score Editor, you will get one staff for each track (al
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though you can split a staff in two, e. g. when scoring for
piano). The staves are tied together by bar lines and
placed in the order of the tracks in the Project window.
• If you need to rearrange the staves: close the editor, go
back into the Project window, drag the tracks to the order
you want them, and open the Score Editor again.
The active staff
Just as in the other editors, all MIDI input (as when record-
ing from your instrument) is directed to one of the tracks,
here called the active staff. The active staff is indicated by
a blue rectangle to the left of the clef symbol.
• To change the active staff, click on the staff you want to
activate.
The active staff