Reference Guide

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Working with percussion
Notation and lyrics
5. Click OK to close the Percussion Notation Key dialog box.
6. Click Close to close the Staff View Layout dialog box.
The Staff view shows the percussion clef with the note bindings and noteheads you assigned.
Ghost strokes
In percussion notation, parentheses around a note mean that it is a ghost stroke, played very lightly
and barely heard. SONAR supports ghost strokes by displaying parentheses around any percussion
note event with velocity less than 32 (a fixed, arbitrary threshold). If necessary, you can adjust the
Vel+ parameter of the track and the velocities of the individual notes to effectively move this
threshold without changing the way the note sounds.
The following figure shows two tracks displaying ghost strokes.