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How the Score Editor works
Entering notes by hand vs. recording notes
Using the Display Quantize tool
With the “Q” tool, you can insert new Display Quantize values anywhere in the score.
Inserted Display Quantize values affect the staff from the insertion point onwards, see
“Inserting Display Quantize changes” on page 750.
Permanent alteration of MIDI data
As a last resort, you can resize, quantize or move the actual note events. However, this
would result in the music not playing back like it originally did. Often it is possible to
get the score to look the way you want without altering any MIDI data.
Summary
This closes our discussion on the basic concept of display quantizing. There are a
number of other special situations which require more advanced techniques
described in the next chapters. The interpretation options which work along the same
lines as Display Quantize are also explained.
Entering notes by hand vs. recording notes
Sometimes you enter and edit notes by hand (or rather using the mouse and/or the
computer keyboard) and at other times you record them from a MIDI keyboard. Most
of the time, you do a combination of both. In the chapter
“Transcribing MIDI
recordings” on page 747 you can find out how to make a recorded score as legible as
possible without making any permanent changes to the MIDI data. The chapter
“Entering and editing notes” on page 753 shows you how to enter and edit notes
using the mouse. In real life, even if you have recorded the piece perfectly, you often
have to do some permanent editing to your recording before printing.
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In order to understand how to produce legible scores we recommend to read both
chapters.