Instruction Manual

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Basic Musical Editing
Notation and Lyrics
Note: tied notes must be selected together, since the series is really just a
single MIDI note. To select tied notes, you must click or drag a rectangle
around the first note of the series.
Moving, Copying, and Deleting Notes on the
Staff
Selections can be cut, copied, pasted, and deleted with Edit menu
commands. The techniques are similar to those used in other views.
Selections can also be dragged and dropped to copy or move them. To
keep track of your current position while dragging, you can keep an eye on
the time and pitch locator in the upper-right corner of the Staff view.
Notes can be dragged horizontally, to a new time, or vertically, to a new
pitch or staff. When you drag a note up or down to a new pitch, the note
normally snaps to the notes in the current key signature (diatonic scale).
This makes it easy to drag notes quickly among pitches that are in the
current key.
If you need to transpose more than a few notes, use the Process-
Transpose command. For more information, see Transposing.
To Move a Single Note in the Staff View
1. Click the Select tool or the Draw tool .
2. Click the note to be moved.
3. Drag the note to a new time, pitch, or staff.
SONAR moves the note to the new location.
Add or remove symbols
from the selection
Press Ctrl and either click on the symbols or
drag a rectangle around the events
Select symbols in a time
range
Click and drag in the Time Ruler
Select symbols between two
markers
Click between the markers
Remove all selections Click in an empty area
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