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The MIDI editors
• If you are editing parts on several tracks, they are put on
a grand staff (multiple staves, tied together by bar lines).
• The number of bars across the screen depends on the
size of the window and the number of notes in each bar.
The maximum number of bars across the page is four.
• The end of the last part is indicated by a double bar line.
• Unlike the other MIDI editors, the Score Editor does not
have a ruler.
A conventional ruler would not make sense, since there is no exact rela-
tionship between a note’s horizontal position in the score and its musical
position in the project.
Score Editor operations
Opening the Score Editor
To open one or several parts in the Score Editor, select
one or several tracks or any number of parts (on the same
or different tracks), and select “Open Score Editor” from
the Scores submenu on the MIDI menu. The default key
command for this is [Ctrl]/[Command]-[R].
• You can also select the Score Editor as your default ed-
itor, allowing you to open it by double-clicking parts.
This is done with the Default Edit Action pop-up menu in the Preferences
dialog (Event Display–MIDI page).
About editing parts on different tracks
If you have selected parts on two or more tracks and open
the Score Editor, you will get one staff for each track (al-
though you can split a staff in two, e.g. when scoring for
piano). The staves are tied together by bar lines and
placed in the order of the tracks in the Project window.
• If you need to rearrange the staves: close the editor, go
back into the Project window, drag the tracks to the order
you want them, and open the Score Editor again.
The active staff
Just as in the other editors, all MIDI input (as when record-
ing from your instrument) is directed to one of the tracks,
here called the active staff. The active staff is indicated by
a blue rectangle to the left of the cleft symbol.
To change the active staff, click on the staff you want to
activate.
Getting the score displayed correctly
When you open the Score Editor for a part recorded in
real time, the score may not look as legible as you expect.
The Score Editor can ignore the minor time variances in
performance and make a neater score almost instantly. To
achieve this, there are a number of Staff Settings that de-
termine how the program displays the music.
Ö Note that the time signature follows the time signa-
ture(s) set in the Tempo Track Editor, and that these set-
tings are common to all tracks/staves in the score.
There are two ways to open the Staff Settings dialog:
• Double-click in the area to the left of the staff.
• Activate a staff by clicking in it, and select “Staff Set-
tings…” from the Scores submenu on the MIDI menu.
The Staff Settings dialog appears.
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The settings you make in this dialog are independent
for each staff (track), but common for a piano staff
which you have created by choosing the “Split” Staff
Mode option (see below).
The active staff