User Guide

Chapter 7: Notation and Printing
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Line Thickness Settings
These settings allow you to control the thickness of various line elements of the notation. For example, if you set
the Bar Line width to 200%, the bar lines will be twice as wide, and easier to see. This affects display and printout.
Show Popup Hint for Note Properties
If this is checked the note properties pop-up will open if you hover the mouse cursor
over a note in the Editable Notation window.
Defaults button
Click [Defaults] to have all modifications revert back to factory settings.
Keystroke Note Editing
You can easily edit notes using only keystrokes. By stepping through the notes one-by-one, when a note is
highlighted you can change the pitch using the cursor keys, and other values (timing, duration, channel) with other
hot keys. This speeds up editing of notes. To use this function, you do the following:
1. Open up the Notation window.
2. Move the mouse cursor to the note that you want to edit, and then press the Chord Advance (INS or DEL key
on the Numeric Keypad). This highlights the current note.
3. With the note highlighted in red, use the cursor up/down keys to change the pitch of the note. You hear the
pitch change as the note changes.
4. Use the cursor left/right keys to change the note's start time, duration, channel, or velocity (depending on the
setting of the “Right/ Left Cursor Edits” field in the Notation Options Dialog.
Press the Esc key or [Stop] button when you're done.
Section Text for Notation
You can add custom Section Text and Boxed Text messages at any position in the notation track, with
optional box to appear around the text.
To put a section text comment on the notation track:
- Open up the notation window, and press the [N] button to enable editable notation.
- Right click on the track at the point that you want to enter the section text. Answer YES to the question
“Would you like to enter Section Text?”
- This launches the Section Text Event dialog box that allows you to type in the text. You can set the text type
to “Boxed” or “Regular.”