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Tips and Tricks
I can’t select an object on the screen, or I can’t select an
object without selecting another object.
Drag a selection rectangle around the objects. Then hold
down [Shift] and deselect all the objects you do not want
included, by clicking on them. You should also check out
the lock layer function.
Symbols have disappeared.
Are they layout symbols? Then maybe they belong to an-
other layout than the one you are editing now.
If that is not the reason, maybe you have inserted the sym-
bol into the wrong staff, see “Important! – Symbols,
staves, and voices” on page 621.
A symbol doesn’t move with its staff. Auto Layout
produces far too wide spacing.
Maybe you have inserted the symbol into the wrong staff.
Please observe the warning in the section “Important! –
Symbols, staves, and voices” on page 621.
A note symbol appears too far from the note I wanted it
inserted on.
Do you have activated the correct voice? Note symbols
are inserted into voices, just like notes.
The note I recorded is displayed with the wrong length.
For example, I recorded a sixteenth and got a quarter
note.
You probably have the wrong Display Quantize value set.
Open the Score Settings dialog and select the Staff page.
If Auto Quantize is activated, deactivate it, unless you have
mixed triplets and regular notes. Also check the Notes and
Rests Display Quantize values. If the settings are too
“coarse”, change them to a smaller note value. If you for
example need the program to display an eighth note rest,
Rests Display Quantize must be set to “8” or a smaller
value (please refer to the chapter
“How the Score Editor
works” on page 551). If No Overlap is activated, you might
want to turn it off.
There is a pause after a note that I don’t want.
You probably added a note with the wrong note value. Ei-
ther lengthen the note (physically or graphically – see
“Changing the length of notes” on page 582) or delete the
one you have (see “Deleting notes” on page 585) and add
a new one with the correct note value. If this problem oc-
curs a lot in your score, try selecting a larger Rests Display
Quantize value (see
“Using Rests as Display Quantize
setting” on page 554).
There is no pause after the note although there should
be one.
Either the note is too long (use Clean Lengths or change
the current note’s length), or Rests Display Quantize is set
to too high a value. Open the Score Settings, select the
Staff page and lower the value.
The note has an accidental when it shouldn’t, or it
doesn’t when it should.
Maybe the note is simply of the wrong pitch? Click on it
(using the Object Selection tool) and look at the info line
(if this is not shown, see
“The info line” on page 560).
Move it to the correct pitch (see “Editing pitches of indi-
vidual notes” on page 581). If this is not the reason,
maybe you have the wrong key set? And finally, you can
also use enharmonic shifting (see “Accidentals and enhar-
monic shift” on page 606).
Notes are not grouped under beams the way I want it.
Normally the program groups eighth notes, sixteenths, etc.
under beams. This can be deactivated. There is also de-
tailed control of which notes are grouped under a beam.
This is described in the section “Handling beaming” on
page 608.
If you wish you had a faster computer
Here are some tips for those who find some operations
slower than they would like:
• Work on a smaller section of the score at a time. Break
the project up into parts and work on those parts individu-
ally until the final layout stage.
• Switch on multi-rests as late as possible.
• When working in Edit Mode, set Default Bars Across
The Staff to a small value, for example 2.
• In Edit Mode, resize the window so that only one grand
staff at a time is visible.
• Consider upgrading your computer hardware.