User Manual

6.2
Notion operates either in NTempo mode or Edit mode. You are in Edit mode when the button in the toolbar
is grey. If it is blue, you are in NTempo mode (click the button to switch to Edit mode). As the names suggests, you
must be in Edit mode to make any change to a score. You will notice several changes from NTempo mode operation:
8 You can view and use the Entry Palette only in Edit mode.
8 You view a light gray editing marker, only seen in Edit mode (discussed below).
8 There’s a new type of cursor, called the Music Cursor, you use to add marks to a score.
8 Performing a score (NTempo playback) has a few dierences before you start and after you stop.
8 In Edit mode you can play or perform just the measures and instruments you highlight.
8 The number of keyboard shortcuts expand to oer editing options (see topics in this and following
chapters for details).
Editing Marker
As a visual alert you are in Edit mode, the playback marker takes on a light gray color, not seen in NTempo mode. When
you click on a sta with the Pointer in Edit mode, the place where you clicked receives a yellow box (see top sta in
illustration) and a light gray bar (called the editing marker) extends to all the other staves in the system at that beat.
Click a staff with the Editing marker
Use the Music Cursor
The Music Cursor is a special cursor that only appears in the score area and only when you are in Edit mode. Almost
everything you can add to a sta you rst place on the Music Cursor (from the Entry Palette or a keyboard shortcut, such
as pressing the p key for a mark). As you move the cursor around the score area, you view a representation of the
symbol in one of two ways:
8 When the Music Cursor hovers over an area where you can add the symbol, you see the symbol in a solid black color
along with a dark gray highlight bar at that beat across all the staves in the system. A transparent box in the gray bar
indicates the specic area involved .
8 When the Music Cursor hovers over an area of the score where you cannot add the symbol, you view the symbol in a
light gray color with no dark gray highlight bar.
◙ A metronome mark can be added here... ...but it cannot be added here (too high). Notice the mark is light gray in color.
Edit Mode Operation