Reference Guide

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Notation and Lyrics
The Staff View
The Staff pane right-click menu
The Staff pane right-click menu offers the following editing options:
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.
Menu command Result
MIDI Effects Opens the MIDI Effects submenu. See “MIDI Effects (MIDI Plug-ins)” on page
519 for more information.
Layout Opens the Staff View Layout dialog box.
Quantize Opens the Quantize dialog box. See “Quantizing” on page 520 for more
information.
Groove Quantize Opens the Groove Quantize dialog box. See “Quantizing” on page 520 for more
information.
Transpose Opens the Transpose dialog box. See “Transposing” on page 482 for more
information.
Slide Opens the Slide dialog box.
Interpolate Opens the Event Filter Search dialog box. See “Process > Interpolate” on page
509 for more information.
Length Opens the Length dialog box. See “Stretching and Shrinking Events” on page
486 for more information.
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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.