Instruction Manual

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Working with Percussion
Notation and Lyrics
By default, percussion staves are given SONAR’s default note bindings and
notehead assignments. If you want to use your own notation, or if you want
to set up the appearance of a percussion line, you need to use the
Percussion Notation Key dialog box. In this dialog box, the percussion
sounds and staff positions that are bound have an asterisk near their
names. When you select a bound percussion sound, a line joins the sound
to its staff position. Each percussion sound can be bound only to a single
position, but each position may be bound to several sounds. You can use
different notehead types and articulation symbols to visually distinguish the
sounds.
To Assign a Percussion Staff or Line to a Track
1. Click the Staff View Layout button to open the Staff View Layout
dialog box.
2. Select your percussion track from the list.
3. Select Percussion Staff or Percussion Line from the Clef dropdown
list.
4. Click Percussion Settings to set up the appearance of percussion notes
(see below).
5. Click Close.
SONAR changes the track’s clef to the selected percussion clef.
To Set Up a Track’s Percussion Notation Key
1. Click the Staff View Layout button to open the Staff View Layout
dialog box.
2. Select your percussion track from the list.
3. Click Percussion Settings to open the Percussion Notation Key dialog
box.
4. Set up the percussion notation key according to the following table:
To do this… Do this…
Map (bind) a percussion
sound to a line or space on
the staff
Select the sound (or corresponding MIDI
note) in the MIDI Note list, select the
intended position in the percussion staff in
the Display As list, then click Bind.