User manual

590
Staff settings
For a “modern” notation of syncopated notes, activate
Syncopation.
Without and with Syncopation
Again, without and with Syncopation
Note that you can insert “exceptions” to the Syncopation
setting in the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page, by
using the Display Quantize tool. You can also create tied
notes in various combinations by using the Cut Notes tool.
Consolidate Rests
Activate this when you want small consecutive rests
joined into one (an eight note rest and a sixteenth note
rest joined to a dotted eighth note rest for example).
Consolidate Rests deactivated and activated
Clean Lengths
When this option is activated, the program interprets the
length of your notes differently. A note’s length (in the dis
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play only) might be extended to the beginning of the next
note or to the next Rests “position” for Display Quantize.
An example:
• If a note is too short, you may get a rest just after it.
• When Clean Lengths is activated, the rest disappears.
A slightly short eighth note without and with “Clean Lengths”.
If using Clean Lengths does not help in a particular situa-
tion, you can manually resize the offending note(s) or use
the Display Quantize tool (see
“Inserting Display Quantize
changes” on page 571).
No Overlap
When notes starting at the same position have different
lengths, the program tends to add more ties than you may
want. This can be avoided by using No Overlap.
This recording in the Key Editor…
…is displayed like this when No Overlap is deactivated…
…and like this when No Overlap is activated.
You can insert “exceptions” to the No Overlap setting on
the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog, by using the
Display Quantize tool.
Shuffle
In jazz it is very common to score a shuffled beat as
straight notes, simply to make it more legible.
When the Shuffle flag is activated, the program searches
for eighth note or sixteenth note pairs where the second
note is played late (with a “swing feel” or as the third note
in a triplet). Such pairs are displayed as regular eighth or
sixteenth notes instead of triplet-based figures.
Without and with Shuffle
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Please note that there may be situations when neither
of these alternatives is ideal. If you run into such a sit-
uation, it can probably be resolved by using poly-
phonic voices, see “Polyphonic voicing” on page 593.