User Manual
8.7
Option 2: Alter Directly
Notion provides a convenient set of keyboard shortcuts you can press to add or edit accidentals on selected notes
already on the score (the Music Cursor is not involved). Quarter-tones are not available with this feature.
1. Click an existing note on the score (or, for multiple notes, either click-select certain notes or highlight
contiguous notes).
2. Hold down Shift as you press an Up Arrow key (for sharp) or Down Arrow key (for at). Each press is the dierence of
a half step. For example, selecting a note with no accidental and pressing Shift + Down Arrow twice places a double-
at on the note. Conversely, selecting a atted note and pressing Shift + Up Arrow twice places a sharp on the note.
Note the before-and-after example below.
◙ Using an Arrow key.
Press Shift + Up Arrow once
Courtesy Accidentals
Notion permits you to force accidentals on the score for use as courtesy reminders. For
example, in a score in the key of F, you can place a at on an B (even though it is already at
in the key) where this will help guide live musicians sight-reading your score.
Enharmonic Respelling
With the enharmonic respelling tool you can change a note’s spelling for the benet of musicians reading
your score. This tool is especially useful when you input from a MIDI device or import from a le. With those
methods, notes will be pitched correctly, but some may have spellings that are out of context for musicians
reading your score: such as having an C# appear where an Db would be more appropriate. For example,
the scale on the left, below, is an Eb Major scale as it appeared on a sta after importing. The notes are
at the correct pitch, but musicians will prefer sight-reading with the scale appearing on the right.
Respelled notes on right.
To enharmonically respell notes, ensure you are in edit mode, then:
1. Select an individual note, Ctrl+Click multiple notes, or select around a bar, measure, stave.
2. Press Shift + E.
» The note changes if there’s an equivalent spelling.
3. To end, press Esc
With a chord, you can either select an individual note, or doube click to select the
whole chord - then press Shift+E to enharmonically respell the note(s).