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The MIDI editors
Clef and Key
The correct Clef and Key are set using the two scroll bars
in the Clef/Key section.
If you activate the “Auto Clef” checkbox, the program attempts to guess
the correct clef, judging from the pitch of the music.
• To set the clef and key for the lower staff, activate the
“Lower Staff” checkbox in the Clef/Key section.
Display Transpose
Some instruments, for example a lot of brass instruments,
are scored transposed. For this purpose, the Staff Set
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tings dialog allows you to specify a separate Display
Transpose setting for each staff (track). This transposes
the notes in the score (i.
e. how they are displayed) without
affecting how the notes play back. This allows you to re
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cord and play back a multi staff arrangement, and still
score each instrument according to its own transposition.
• Use the pop-up menu to select the instrument for which
you are scoring.
You can also manually set a display transpose value with the Semitones
box above.
Interpretation Options
These provide additional options for how the score is dis-
played:
Auto Quantize Generally, if your music contains mixed triplets and
straight notes, try activating this checkbox. Otherwise,
make sure it is deactivated.
Auto Quantize is used to make your score look as legible
as possible. Auto Quantize allows you to mix straight
notes with tuplets (triplets) in a part. But Auto Quantize
also uses the (display) Quantize value. If it cannot find an
appropriate note value for a certain note or group of
notes, it will use the set Quantize value to display it.
If the part is imprecisely played and/or complex, Auto
Quantize may have a problem “figuring out” exactly what
you “mean”.
Dev. This option is only available if Auto Quantize is on. When
Dev. (Deviation) is activated, triplets/straight notes will be
detected even if they are not exactly “on the beat”. How
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ever, if you know your triplets/straight notes are perfectly
recorded (quantized or entered by hand), turn this off.
Adapt This option is only available if Auto Quantize is on. When
Adapt is activated, the program “guesses” that when one
triplet is found, there are probably more triplets surround
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ing it. Turn this on if not all of your triplets are detected.
Option Description
Parameter Description
Clean Lengths When this is activated, notes that are considered to be
chords will be shown with identical lengths. This is done
by showing the longer notes as shorter than they are.
When Clean Lengths is turned on, notes with very short
overlaps are also cut off; a bit as with No Overlap (see
below), but with a more subtle effect.
No Overlap When this is activated one note will never be shown as
overlapping another, lengthwise. This allows long and
short notes starting at the same point to be displayed
without ties; the long notes are cut off in the display. This
will make the music more legible.
An example measure with No Overlap deactivated…
…and with No Overlap activated.
Syncopation When this function is activated, syncopated notes are
shown in a more legible way.
This is a dotted quarter at the end of a bar when Synco-
pation is Off…
…and when it is On.
Shuffle Activate this function when you have played a shuffle beat
and want it displayed as straight notes (not triplets). This
is very common in jazz notation.