Instruction Manual

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The Staff View
Notation and Lyrics
To Change the Staff Pane Layout
1. Click the Staff View Layout button to open the Staff View Layout
dialog box.
2. Select a track from the list (if the track you want to edit is not in the list,
click the Pick Tracks button in the Staff view toolbar and select it). The
Clef option shows the track’s clef.
3. Select a new clef from the list.
4. If you select Treble/Bass, select a Split point.
5. If you select one of the Percussion options, click Percussion Settings to
set up the appearance of percussion notes.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 for other tracks.
7. Click Close when you are done.
SONAR displays tracks using the new staff settings.
Tip: If a piano part’s left-hand and right-hand parts overlap, a split point will
not correctly separate the two parts into treble and bass staves. You may
prefer to put the two parts into two separate tracks.
The Fretboard
The Fretboard shows you the notes located at the Now time in the Staff
pane, laid out on a virtual guitar fretboard. For example, if the Staff pane
shows you this:
Interpolate Opens the Event Filter Search dialog box. See
Process-Interpolate for more information.
Length Opens the Length dialog box. See Stretching
and Shrinking Events for more information.
Menu command Result