Reference Guide

1072 Notation and lyrics

The Staff view

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 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.

For guitar players who are new to musical notation, the Fretboard represents the notes in the Staff

pane as they would appear on a six-string guitar neck in standard tuning. The number of strings and

the tuning are configurable. All notes that appear in the Staff pane at the Now time are shown in the

Fretboard. 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.

Figure 327. The Staff view

A. Staff view menu B. Zoom in/out C. Staff pane D. Editing tools E. Time and pitch locator F. Track list pane

G. Fretboard pane

See:

“Staff pane layout” on page 1073

“The Fretboard” on page 1075

“Fretboard pop-up menu” on page 1076