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Score Edit Window
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Lyrics Here you can set whether text which is to
be inserted with the Text Tool should be normal text (Off)
or Lyrics (On). (Please read also section Text from page
256 onwards).
Diatonic Insert
When Options > Diatonic Insert is active, notes will be en-
tered only at the pitches of the current key signature.
Those pitches that don’t occur in that key (e.g. chromatic
ones) are ignored. Diatonic Insert is very useful for
quickly entering conventional notation as it’s very “forgiv-
ing” as to where you click the mouse on the stave.
Deleting
To delete notes, select them and
– click them with the eraser, or
– choose Edit > Clear, or
– press delete.
Layout and Printing
In this chapter you will learn how to layout and print your
Songs (or parts of it) using the layout and display func-
tions of MAGIX midi studio generation 6.
Playback and Visual Appearance
MAGIX midi studio generation 6 automatically creates a
notation display from the MIDI events that are in the se-
quences.
So far as the interpretation of pitches and positions is con-
cerned, it is always 100% accurate. This does not imply
that the display is immediately 100% readable, since the
length of the notes plays a big role in their ultimate dis-
play. MAGIX midi studio generation 6 allows quite a tol-
erance in the interpretation of the display which means
that additional editing is often required to produce the de-
sired results.
The following illustration shows a typical example of how
sixteenths can appear on the stave before any additional
editing is applied:
Graphik
How MIDI is interpreted in notation form if the wrong display
quantization is selected…
This display may well be correct, but it’s unreadable. Why
is that?
MIDI note events contain very precise information about
where a note begins, its length and pitch, and this must be
exactly reproduced on playback. The “feel” of the groove
can be altered if the notes are all a little under a sixteenth