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Staff View Print Configure dialog

When you use the File > Print Preview command, the Print Preview window appears. In the Print

Preview window is the Configure button. Click the Configure button to open the Staff View Print

Configure dialog box, which has the Rastral Size field that you control rastral size with.

Rastral size is the vertical distance between the lines of each staff. Each rastral size has a number

and is used by publishers for a specific genre of musical composition

To change the rastral size, pick a new rastral size from the drop-down menu and click OK.

For more information, see:

“Printing” on page 1106

Step Record dialog

Press SHIFT+R to open the Step Record dialog box. Step recording lets you specify step size and

note duration so you can record difficult passages a step at a time. Step Record always uses the

Sound on Sound (blend) record mode, regardless of the current record mode.

The Step Record dialog box has an extra set of controls called Advanced mode that only appear

when you click the Adv. button. The Step Record dialog box has the following fields:

Step Size

• Click a note head to choose a step size for the next note or rest you want to enter.

• Click the dotted or double-dotted buttons to add a dot or double-dot to any step size.

• Click N to create a custom step size.

• Click the Tuplet check box, and enter values in the two adjacent number fields to create a tuplet

step size

Duration

The duration value controls how much of a note’s step size the note actually lasts.

• Click Follow Step Size to keep the duration values the same as the step size.

• If you don’t check Follow Step Size, fill in a value in the % of note value field to set duration.

• If you don’t check Follow Step Size, you can randomize the duration by the value you enter in the

Randomize By field (Advanced mode only).

Destination Track

Choose the track that you want to add the note data to.