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The MIDI editors
Score Editor operations
The extended toolbar
• To show or hide the extended toolbar, click the “Set up Window Layout” button
and activate or deactivate the Tools option.
Note value buttons
Click one of these to select a note value for input. The “T” and “.” options are for triplet
and dotted note values. You can also press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click one of the
note value buttons – this will resize all selected notes to the note value you choose.
Enharmonic Shift
Allows you to manually select whether a note is shown with flat or sharp accidentals,
see
“Enharmonic Shift” on page 540.
The score display
The main area of the Score Editor window shows the notes in the edited parts on one
or several staves.
• If you are editing one or several parts on the same track, as much of them as
possible is shown on several staves – one above the other – just as with a score
on paper.
• If you are editing parts on several tracks, they are put on a grand staff (multiple
staves, tied together by bar lines).
• The number of bars across the screen depends on the size of the window and the
number of notes in each bar.
The maximum number of bars across the page is four.
• The end of the last part is indicated by a double bar line.
• Unlike the other MIDI editors, the Score Editor does not have a ruler.
A conventional ruler would not make sense, since there is no exact relationship
between a note’s horizontal position in the score and its musical position in the
project.
Score Editor operations
Opening the Score Editor
To open one or several parts in the Score Editor, select one or several tracks or any
number of parts (on the same or different tracks), and select “Open Score Editor”
from the Scores submenu of the MIDI menu. The default key command for this is
[Ctrl]/[Command]-[R].
• You can also select the Score Editor as your default editor, allowing you to open it
by double-clicking parts.
This is done with the Default Edit Action pop-up menu in the Preferences dialog
(Event Display–MIDI page).