User Guide

Chapter 7: Notation Modes 39
resolution of 4 will cause the program to round each note and duration to the
nearest 16th note when displaying the music (in 4/4). A resolution of 3 will cause
the program to round each note to the nearest 8th note triplet (in 4/4). A resolution
of 2 will cause the program to round each note to the nearest 8th note (in 4/4).
Hint:
If you're displaying
Jazz
swing or shuffle music that has a triplet feel to the
eighth notes, make sure to set the resolution to =3 (triplets). This will display the
8th notes and other aspects of
Jazz
swing music correctly.
If you need to print out individual parts, open the MIDI Notation window, select
the part you want to print out, and press the MIDI Notation's internal
PRINT
BUTTON,
shown here:
MIDI Notation Print Button
Like the MIDI Notation Window itself, any measures with time signatures other
than 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 will be printed as blank. The printout will contain one
time signature at the beginning of the printout, but any time signature changes
throughout the song will not be printed.
The
Clean
checkbox puts the MIDI notation into Clean Mode. Clean Mode will
'clean up' the notation in certain situations where notes are played very close
together and are within a certain interval of each other. For example, when there
are a lot of grace notes leading up or down to the next note. Clean Mode also has
a routine for detecting 'glitch notes' which are notes that are short in duration and
have a low velocity.
Notation Window Options
The
Bars Per Line - Song
setting determines the horizontal resolution of the
screen. For example, with 2 Bars Per Line, the width of the screen is equal to 2
Bars in length. You can increase this setting to 16 Bars Per Line, although the
screen may look unusual at this extreme since the size of the note heads remains
the same regardless of this setting.
You can also use this setting to make the resolution equal to between 1 and 4
beats rather than complete bars. This is mainly for editing purposes. If you use
beats with this setting, the program will ignore any Bars Per Line (From This
Screen On) markers in order to display the partial bars. During playback the
program will not display less than 1 bar per line even if this setting is using beats
rather than bars.