User manual

538
The MIDI editors
Score Editor operations
Selecting notes
There are several ways to select notes in the Score Editor:
By clicking
To select a note, click on its note head with the Object Selection tool. The note head
gets red to indicate that it is selected.
• To select more notes, hold down [Shift] and click on them.
• To deselect notes, hold [Shift] down and click on them again.
• If you hold down [Shift] and double-click on a note, this note and all the following
notes in the same staff are selected.
Using a selection rectangle
1. Press the mouse button with the Object Selection tool in some free (white) space
in the score.
2. Drag the mouse pointer to create a selection rectangle.
You can drag to select notes on several voices or staves if you wish.
3. Release the mouse button.
All notes with their note heads inside the rectangle get selected.
• If you want to deselect one or more of the notes, hold down [Shift] and click as
described above.
Using the keyboard
By default, you can step through the notes in the staff using the left and right arrow
keys. If you press [Shift], you will select the notes as you step through them.
• If you want to use other keys for selecting notes, you can customize the settings in
the Key Commands dialog (in the Navigate category).
Deselecting everything
• To deselect everything, simply click with the Object Selection tool in some “free”
(white) space in the score.
Deleting notes
Notes can be deleted in two ways:
Using the Erase tool
1. Select the Erase tool from the toolbar or context menu.
2. One at a time, click on the note(s) you want to erase, or drag over them with the
mouse button pressed.
Using the keyboard or delete menu item
1. Select the note(s) you want to delete.
2. Select Delete from the Edit menu, or press [Delete] or [Backspace] on the
computer keyboard.
Moving notes
To move or transpose notes, proceed as follows:
1. Set the Quantize value.
2. If you want to hear the pitch of the note while moving, activate the Acoustic
Feedback button (speaker icon) on the toolbar.
When it is on, you will hear the current pitch of the “dragged” note.