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Tutorial 5 – Working with music notation
Changing the duration of a note
1. Right click the note head to open the Note Properties dialog box.
2. In the Duration field, enter in the number of ticks you want for the note, then click OK to close
the Note Properties dialog box.
3. Select the Smart tool or the Edit tool .in the Control Bar.
4. Do one of the following:
• With the Edit tool , position the pointer over the note’s start or end point, then drag left/
right to adjust the start/end position.
• With the Smart tool , position the pointer over the note’s start or end point, then drag left/
right to adjust the start/end position. You can also double-click the note to open the Note
Properties dialog box, then enter in the number of ticks you want for the note duration.
The following table shows the relationship between note durations and ticks (with the default
timebase of 960 ticks per quarter note).
Note Duration in ticks
Whole 4:000
Half 2:000
Quarter 1:000
Eighth 480
Sixteenth 240
Thirty-second 120