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Table of Contents

7 How the Score Editor works

8 In this Chapter you will learn:
8 Welcome!
8 How the Score Editor operates
9 MIDI Notes vs Score Notes
10 Display Quantize
13 Entering Notes by hand compared with Recording them

14 Tutorials

15 In this Chapter you will learn:
15 Tutorial 1 – Entering Notes with the Mouse
26 Tutorial 2 – Converting a MIDI Recording
41 Other Score Tutorials

42 The Basics

43 In this Chapter you will learn:
43 Preparations
43 Opening Score Edit
46 The Song Position
46 Page Mode
47 Changing Magnification
49 The Active Staff
50 Making Print and Page Setup settings
50 Designing your Work Space
56 Setting Key, Clef and Time Signature
62 Working with Transposing
Instruments
63 Working Order
64 Force Update
64 About the Score Preferences

65 Transcribing MIDI Recordings 84 Entering and Editing Notes using the Mouse

85 In this Chapter you will learn:
85 Staff Settings
88 Note Values and Positions
92 Adding and Editing Notes
96 Adding Rests
97 Selecting Notes
99 Deleting Notes
100 Moving Notes
103 Duplicating Notes
103 The “Move Events To” function
105 Moving using the Bar Handles
106 Cut, Copy and Paste
108 Editing Pitches of Individual Notes
110 Changing the Length of Notes
112 Splitting a Note in two
113 Muting Notes
113 Working with the Quantize Tool
114 Split (Piano) Staves
115 Strategies: Multiple Staves
116 Inserting and Editing Clefs, Keys or Time Signatures

118 Staff Settings

119 In this Chapter you will learn:
119 Staff Settings
120 Making Settings
121 Working with Staff Presets
123 Staff Mode
123 Key and Clef
124 Display Quantize and Interpretation Flags
125 Staff Options
127 Staff Settings and General MIDI Instruments

66 In this Chapter you will learn:
66 About Transcription
66 Getting the Parts Ready
67 Strategies: Preparing Parts for Score Printout
68 Staff Settings
76 Situations which require Additional Techniques
78 Inserting Display Quantize Changes
81 Strategies: Adding Display Quantize changes
82 The Explode Function
83 Using “Score Notes To MIDI”

128 Polyphonic Voicing

129 In this Chapter you will learn:
129 Background: Polyphonic Voicing
131 Setting up the Voices
134 Strategies: How many Voices do I need?
134 Using Auto Move To Voices
136 Entering Notes into Voices
136 Recording and Step Input
137 Checking which Voice a Note belongs to
137 Selecting all Notes in a Voice 138 Moving Notes between Voices 139 Handling Rests
140 Converting a Piano Staff into Polyphonic Voicing
142 Voices and Display Quantize
143 Creating Crossed Voicings
145 Automatic Polyphonic Voicing - Merge All Staves
146 Converting Voices to Tracks - Extract Voices

147 Additional Note and Rest Formatting
221 Working with Chords

222 In this Chapter you will learn:
222 Chord Symbols
228 Creating a Lead Sheet
229 Chord Tracks and Accidentals

231 Working with Text

232 In this Chapter you will learn:
232 Adding and Editing Text Symbols
239 Different Types of Text
244 Text Functions
247 Fixed Text Elements
148 In this Chapter you will learn: 148 Background: Note Stems
149 Setting Stem Direction
152 Stem Length
154 Accidentals and Enharmonic Shift 156 Changing the Note Head Shape 157 Changing the Note Head Color 159 Other Note Details
161 Copying Settings between Notes 161 Handling Beaming
169 About Tied Notes
171 Graphic moving of Notes
172 Cue Notes
174 Grace Notes
177 Tuplets

180 Working with Symbols

181 In this Chapter you will learn:
181 Background: The Layout Layer
183 The Symbol Palettes
188 Important! – Symbols, Staves and Voices
189 Adding Symbols to the Score
200 Selecting Symbols
202 Moving and Duplicating Symbols
209 Changing Length and Shape
210 Double clicking Symbols
210 Deleting Symbols
210 Copy and Paste
211 Alignment
213 Symbol Details

255 Working with Layouts

256 In this Chapter you will learn:
256 Background: Layouts
257 Creating a Layout
258 Opening the Tracks in a Layout
259 The Layout List
262 Using Layouts – An Example
262 Marker Track to Form

263 Designing your Score - Additional Techniques

264 In this Chapter you will learn:
264 Page Mode Settings
266 Staff Size
266 Hiding/Showing Items
269 Multiple Rests
270 Adding and Editing Bar Lines
271 Creating Upbeats
274 Setting the Number of Bars across the Page
276 Inserting and Removing Bars
277 Moving Bar Lines
279 Dragging Staves
282 Adding Brackets and Braces
283 Auto Layout
285 Clean Up Layout
286 Breaking Bar Lines
287 Copying Settings between Grand Staves

288 Scoring for Drums 314 Troubleshooting

289 In this Chapter you will learn:
289 Background: The Drum Map and Score Edit
291 Setting up the Drum Map
294 Setting up a Staff for Drum Scoring
294 Entering and Editing Notes
295 Using Single Line Drum Staff 315 In this Chapter you will learn: 315 How to use this Chapter 315 Adding and Editing Notes 317 Symbols and Layout

318 Tips and Tricks

 

319 In this Chapter you will learn:

296 Creating Tablature 325 Shortcuts
297 In this Chapter you will learn:
297 Automatic Creation
300 Manual Creation
301 Tablature Number appearance
302 Editing
303 Note Head Shape
326 Multi Edit and Multi Insert
327 Get Info
328 “Context Menus” for symbols and other objects

329 Index 304 Printing and Exporting Pages 305 Printing

 

306 Exporting pages as image files

 

308 The Score and MIDI

309 In this Chapter you will learn:
309 MIDI Meaning
310 Damper Pedal Symbols
311 Program Change Symbols
312 Crescendo to Velocity
313 Dynamics to Velocity