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The MIDI editors
Score Editor operations
About editing parts on different tracks
If you have selected parts on two or more tracks and open the Score Editor, you will
get one staff for each track (although you can split a staff in two, e.
g. when scoring for
piano). The staves are tied together by bar lines and placed in the order of the tracks
in the Project window.
• If you need to rearrange the staves: close the editor, go back into the Project
window, drag the tracks to the order you want them, and open the Score Editor
again.
The active staff
Just as in the other editors, all MIDI input (as when recording from your instrument) is
directed to one of the tracks, here called the active staff. The active staff is indicated
by a blue rectangle to the left of the clef symbol.
• To change the active staff, click on the staff you want to activate.
Getting the score displayed correctly
When you open the Score Editor for a part recorded in real time, the score may not
look as legible as you expect. The Score Editor can ignore the minor time variances in
performance and make a neater score almost instantly. To achieve this, there are a
number of Staff Settings that determine how the program displays the music.
Ö Note that the time signature follows the time signature(s) set in the Tempo Track
Editor, and that these settings are common to all tracks/staves in the score.
There are two ways to open the Staff Settings dialog:
• Double-click in the area to the left of the staff.
• Activate a staff by clicking in it, and select “Staff Settings…” from the Scores
submenu of the MIDI menu.
The Staff Settings dialog appears.
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The settings you make in this dialog are independent for each staff (track), but
common for a piano staff which you have created by choosing the “Split” Staff Mode
option (see below).