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Additional note and rest formatting
4. Click Apply.
The settings are applied to the selected notes.
5. Close the dialog.
Converting grace notes to normal notes
1. Select the notes that you want to convert.
If you want to make sure that all notes in the score are normal notes, you
can select all notes (using the Select All command on the Edit menu).
2. Double-click on one of the selected grace notes.
The Set Note Info dialog appears.
3. Select “Normal” from the “Type” pop-up menu.
4. Click Apply.
Tuplets
The regular Display Quantize values do not apply to any
other divisions than triplets. To create quintuplets, septup-
lets, etc., follow the instructions below.
There are two methods for creating tuplets:
• With permanent alteration to the MIDI data. This is the “draw-
ing” mode to use when you want to build the tuplet from
scratch. It does not put any demand on the notes’ positions
before the tuplet is created.
• As display quantize. This is the method you use when the tu-
plet is recorded and plays back as you want it, but is not dis-
played correctly.
Actually, in the first case, you make permanent alterations
and set display quantize settings, all in one go. In the se-
cond case you only make display quantize settings.
With permanent change to MIDI data
1. Insert as many notes as the tuplet consists of.
This would typically be 5, 7 or 9. If the tuplet contains rests, simply leave
space for those, but make sure that the current Display Quantize value
allows them to be shown.
Five sixteenth notes, about to be converted to a quintuplet.
2. Select all the notes that make up the tuplet.
3. Select “Build N-Tuplet…” from the Scores menu.
The Tuplets dialog appears.
4. Set the type of tuplet in the Type field.
“5” means a quintuplet, “7” means a septuplet, etc.
5. Set the length of the entire tuplet using the “Over” field.
6. Activate Change Length, if needed.
If you do, the program alters the length of all notes so that they are ex-
actly the note value the tuplet indicates. If you do not, the lengths of the
existing notes is not affected in any way.
7. If you want any other text than the standard above the
tuplet, enter it into the “Text” field.
The standard text is simply the number in the type field. If the tuplet is put
under a beam (see
“Tuplet display options” on page 617) the text is put
just above it. If there is no beam, the text is found in the middle of a bracket.
8. Click Build.
The tuplet appears. The notes have now been moved to the tuplet posi-
tions and their length might have changed.
9. If needed, edit the lengths and pitches of the notes in
the tuplet.
You can also make various settings for the appearance of the tuplet –
see below.