Instruction Manual

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Staff View
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Staff View
Open the Staff view by any of three methods:
•Use the Views-Staff command
• Click the Staff View button in the Views toolbar
•Select Staff from the Clips pane right-click popup menu
The Staff view displays MIDI note events as musical notation. For some
musicians, this may be the most familiar and comfortable view in which to
work. The Staff view provides many features that make it possible for you to
compose, edit, and print music.
The Staff View Toolbar has all the buttons you need to enter and edit notes,
and control the display of your notation.
The Staff view is composed of a Staff pane and a Fretboard. When you first
open the Staff view, you may see only the Staff pane and not the Fretboard.
Resize the Staff view by dragging its edges until you can see everything
easily. When you save your file, whatever size the Staff view is will be the
way it appears the next time you open the file.
The Staff pane displays MIDI note events as musical notation. For some
musicians, this may be the most familiar and comfortable view in which to
work. The Staff pane provides many features that make it easy for you to
compose, edit, and print music. You can choose from a wide variety of clefs
to display your music (see To Change the Staff Pane Layout).
For guitar players who are new to musical notation, the Fretboard
represents the notes in the Staff pane as they would appear on a guitar or
bass fretboard. All notes that appear in the Staff pane at the Now Time are
shown in the Fretboard. Page through your track by pressing Ctrl-Right
Arrow and watch the note names in the Fretboard appear. If you enter notes
in the staff at the Now Time, they appear on the fretboard. Likewise, you
can enter notes into the staff at the Now Time by clicking the guitar strings
on the fretboard. Notes and chords shown in the fretboard can be easily
edited by dragging them up and down the guitar strings.
For more information, see:
The Staff View
Basic Musical Editing
Chords and Marks
Staff Pane Layout