Instruction Manual

738 Notation and Lyrics
The Staff View
Note: You can right-click in the Track List pane to access Snap to Scale
commands. For more information on this feature, see Snap to Scale.
Staff Pane Layout
The Staff pane can display up to 24 staves of standard and percussion
notation. When you open the Staff pane, SONAR automatically picks a clef
for each track—bass or treble—by looking at the range of pitches in the
track. If a track has notes that fall into both clefs, or no notes at all, SONAR
automatically splits the track into two staves, treble and bass. You can
change the assignment of clefs with the Staff View Layout dialog box.
When you split a track into treble and bass staves, you must select a split
point. Notes at or above the split are placed into a treble staff, notes below
the split are placed into a bass staff.
A wide variety of editing options for notes, layout, and MIDI effects are
available from the Staff Pane Right-Click menu.
Percussion settings are discussed in the section Setting Up a Percussion
Track.
The Staff Pane Right-Click Menu
The Staff pane Right-Click menu offers the following editing options:
Menu command Result
MIDI Effects Opens the MIDI Effects submenu. See MIDI
Effects (MIDI Plug-ins) for more information.
Layout Opens the Staff View Layout dialog box.
Quantize Opens the Quantize dialog box. See
Quantizing for more information.
Groove Quantize Opens the Groove Quantize dialog box. See
Quantizing for more information.
Transpose Opens the Transpose dialog box. See
Transposing for more information.
Slide Opens the Slide dialog box.