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Insert new notes
You can also insert new notes in the score editor by using the pen. Click on the desired position with the
pen, hold down the mouse button and, if necessary, correct the position and pitch. If you let go of the
mouse key, Samplitude Music Studio 15 will add a new note of the same length as the selected length
quantization value. You can only insert new notes into the active stave. For instance, to insert a note in
the lower part of a piano system, first click on the lower staff in the system on the left.
Only notes are inserted that correspond with the current pitch. Non-scale notes or chromatic
intermediate steps are skipped. When you enter conventional music material with the mouse, diatonic
insert mode increases the chances of hitting the correct note. If a new prefix is to be added to the note,
you can move the note chromatically with the arrow key. This way an inserted F in C major can be
transformed into an F# by pressing "Page up".
Delete notes
You can delete notes by:
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selecting them and pressing "Del" or
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by clicking on them with the eraser (or the right mouse button)
Insert notation symbols
Clef symbols can be inserted at the current cursor position by pressing the corresponding clef symbol in
the active system.
Delete notation symbol
Notation symbols such as clef and pitch cannot be selected, since they are meta information for the
notation display and no MIDI
events have been allocated to them. They can also be deleted by clicking them with the eraser (or the
right mouse button).
Adjusting and optimizing the score
Samplitude Music Studio 15 automatically generates a notation display from the MIDI
events contained in the MIDI object. This is always correct with regard to pitch and position. However,
this does not mean that the notation can be read optimally, since displaying note lengths also plays an
important role in this context. In this case, the notation permits more interpretation flexibility so that the
user usually has to intervene. The illustration shows a typical example of how poor a readable
transformation of a sixteenth note piano sequence would look in notation.
This representation may be correct, but it is not readable. Why is that? The MIDI events contain very
precise information on the start of a note, i.e. its length and pitch, which has to be taken into account
during playback. It may influence the groove of a song if the notes are always slightly shorter than
sixteenth notes. If this were to be displayed correctly in the notation, then the score would be unreadable
as in the example above. The MIDI events also do not contain information on whether the gap between
two notes is a real rest, its harmonic correlations (pitch), and the characteristics of the dynamic
sequences. This is why automatic processing of notation always differs from what would be ideal.
Samplitude Music Studio 15 includes a number of automatically and manually controllable functions for
making it easier to read the notation. The reworked version of the the above score illustration shows how
big the difference can be.
Note allocation in multiple staves
The term "Stave" refers to an individual line within a stave as well as all staves of a score. In cases where
it is important to be able to differentiate a score and a staff from one another, we use the term "Stave" for
the score and "staff" for a single system.
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