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Staff View
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” on page 746).
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
Inserting Notes on the Staff
To Audition with the Scrub Tool
Moving, Copying, and Deleting Notes on the Staff
Using Enharmonic Spellings
Adding Expression Marks
Adding Hairpin Symbols
The Fretboard
Tablature
Working with Lyrics
Beaming of Rests
Setting Up a Percussion Staff or Line
Staff View Keyboard Shortcuts