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7 Tutorial 5: Working
with Music Notation
You can view and edit Software Instrument regions in
standard music notation format. In notation view, you
can edit notes and other musical events, including
adding pedal markings.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn some basics about music notation. You’ll learn how to:
 View Software Instrument regions as music notation
 Choose the note value for notation view
 Add, select, and edit notes in notation view
 Add pedal symbols
 Change the clef sign
 Print music notation
About Notation View
In addition to the editor’s graphic “piano roll” view, you can view Software Instrument
regions (both those you record and those from loops) in notation view. In notation
view, the notes in a region are shown as musical notes. Notation view includes other
musical symbols such as rests, staves, clef signs, time signatures, key signatures, and
pedal markings. This section briefly describes some of these symbols, for users
unfamiliar with music notation.
 Notes: A musical note has several parts, including the note head and stem. The note
head (the round part of the note) indicates the note’s duration (how long the note
lasts). Notes of shorter duration (shorter than a quarter note) have flags, and
sometimes these notes are joined together by beams. Each note shown below is half
as long as the note to its left (from left to right, the notes are whole note, half note,
quarter note, and eighth note).