User Manual

QUICKSCRIBE EDITOR
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There are several ways to select a duration: 1) click
the desired note duration in the tool palette, 2)
press the open bracket ( [ ) and closed bracket ( ] )
keys on the computer keyboard repeatedly, or 3)
use the extended keypad as described in “Selecting
durations with the extended keypad” on page 473.
The currently selected duration is displayed in the
tool palette.
4 Play the desired note or chord on your MIDI
controller.
Notes appear when you release the keys, so be
careful not to slur notes together. It’s best to play in
a staccato fashion to avoid accidentally inserting
two notes when you only want to enter one. If you
would like to hold one note while inserting others,
just keep holding it down while inserting the other
notes.
5 Play as many notes and chords as you’d like.
Change durations as needed. Step Recording uses
many of the same keyboard actions as computer
keyboard entry, so you may want to review the
section “Inserting notes with the computer
keyboard” on page 472.
Getting the pointer temporarily
While working with the QuickScribe Tool palette,
you may want to temporarily restore the pointer for
selecting or some other purpose. To do so, press
the Option/Alt key. While you hold it down, the
cursor turns into a pointer. When you release the
Option/Alt key, the cursor switches back to
whatever it was.
Selecting notes for editing
Below is a summary of how to select notes for
editing in the QuickScribe Editor. Notes are
selected with the Pointer tool.
☛ If a note is displayed as several tied notes, you
can click any notehead to select the entire note.
When a single note is selected, its information
appears in the Event Info window. This
information can be edited as usual.
Dragging selected notes
To change the pitch of selected notes, drag them
vertically. To change their time location, drag them
horizontally. In either case, your action is
constrained to the direction you first drag. For
example, if you drag vertically to change pitch,
your action is constrained to the vertical axis as
soon as you begin dragging so that you don’t
accidentally move the notes in time as well.
Conversely, if you drag horizontally first, your
action is constrained horizontally so that you don’t
accidentally change pitch.
When dragging horizontally across multiple
systems, you can drag to any staff in the system.
(You are not limited to the original staff.)
To select this Do this
A single note Click it once.
Several notes that are not next
to one another
Shift-click each note.
The notes in several measures Drag a selection box over the
measures.
A region of notes Drag a selection box over them.
All notes in the track Double-click any note
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