User Manual
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To help live musicians to read your scores, the placement of rests can be as critical as the placement
of notes. Notion provides a number of features that help you display rests to enhance readability.
These visual features benet musicians reading your score and do not aect playback. The playback
marker will continue through incomplete or blank measures when you play or perform.
Enter Bar Rests Quickly
A whole rest from the Entry Palette (or with a keyboard shortcut of W) is intended for common meters.
With other meters, there is a special keyboard shortcut you can press to access a full bar rest.
1. Ensure you are in Edit mode.
2. Press the Z key.
» A whole rest appears on your Music Cursor.
3. Position your Music Cursor anywhere in a measure you want to add the whole-measure rest.
4. Either click your mouse or press Enter.
◙ Examples of the same bar rest in measures with various meters.
This feature is useful if you have a few measures involved. If you happen to have more
than a few measures to ll, the next feature oers greater time savings.
Automatically Fill Measures
For readability, empty or partially notated measures should be lled to their meter’s count with rest marks. On
an orchestral score, this can be time-consuming. With Notion you can ll a large number of these measures
(or even all measures in a score) quickly: partially notated measures will nish the meter in the correct count
of rests and, just like the previous procedure, any empty measure receives a whole rest, no matter what the
meter. And any measure containing a correct count of notes and rests will simply be skipped over.
1. Ensure you are in Edit mode.
2. Inform Notion which measures are involved by highlighting the ones you want to ll in one of the following ways:
> Highlight contiguous measures.
> Highlight the entire part (sta) throughout the score by clicking this sta anywhere, then either:
8 Go to the Menu bar and select Edit > Select Part, or
8 Press the keyboard shortcut of Windows: Shift + Ctrl + A; Mac: Shift + + A
> Highlight the entire score by going to the Menu bar and selecting Edit > Select All – or pressing
Windows: Ctrl + A; Mac: + A.
3. Right-click anywhere in the highlighted area.
» A context menu appears.
4. Select Tools > Fill With Rests.
Fill Measures with Rests