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The basics
On the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog
1. Click on a staff to make it the active staff.
2. On the Scores menu, select “Settings…” to open the
Score Settings dialog. Select the Staff page at the top to
open Main tab, showing the current settings for the active
staff.
You can also double-click to the left of a staff to make it active and bring
up the Score Settings dialog in one go (if this does not work, the “Dou
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ble-click on staff flips between full score/part” option in the Preferences
dialog (Scores–Editing page) may be activated – see
“Displaying single
voices or the complete score” on page 557).
3. In the Clef/Key section, use the scroll bar on the left to
select one of the available clefs.
How to insert clef changes is described in the section “Inserting and ed-
iting clefs, keys, or time signatures” on page 584.
4. Click Apply.
Ö You can select another staff in the score and make
settings for it without having to close the Score Settings
dialog first.
In a split system
If you have a split system (see “Split (piano) staves” on
page 583 and “Strategies: How many voices do I need?”
on page 597) you can set different clefs for the upper and
lower staff.
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page.
2. Select a clef for the upper staff.
3. Activate the “Lower Staff” checkbox.
4. Set a clef for the lower staff.
Using Auto Clef
On the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog you also
find the Auto Clef option. If this is activated, the program
automatically selects a treble clef or a bass clef for the
staff, depending on the range of the notes in the part.
Editing the key
Therefore, when you want to edit the key, decide if you
want the key change to apply to the entire project, or if you
want to use different keys on different staves:
• If the key set at the beginning of the track is to be used
on all staves, and if any subsequent key changes are also
valid for all staves, then leave the “Key Changes for the
entire Project” option activated.
• If you want to use different keys on different staves,
make sure that the “Key Changes for the entire Project”
option is deactivated.
On the key context menu
When you right-click on a key symbol, a context menu with
a list of all available keys opens. This menu also contains
the following options:
• Key changes for the entire Project
If this option is activated, all changes made to the key always affects the
entire project, so that it is not possible to define different keys for different
staves.
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In the Score Settings dialog on the Project–Notation
Style subpage (Keys category), you can find the “Key
Changes for the entire Project” option. When this is
activated, all changes made to the key always affect
every staff in the project, i.
e. it is impossible to define
different keys for different staves (other than the rela-
tive display transpose settings for instruments made
on the Staff page). Furthermore, on the Staff page,
any staff (e.g. a drum staff) can be set to not show key
signatures.