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Additional note and rest formatting
About tied notes
Time signature changes
By inserting time signature changes, you can change the way notes are cut. This is
done in the same way as when you specify how beamed notes are grouped – see
“Grouping” on page 797.
The Cut Notes tool
By using the Cut Notes tool, you can disable the automatic cutting mechanism in a
bar, and insert manual cuts at any given position in the score.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select the Cut Notes tool.
2. Select a suitable quantize value from the “Quantize Presets” pop-up menu.
As usual, this determines where you can click.
3. When you are using polyphonic voices, select the voice you want to make settings
for.
4. Click in the bar containing the notes that you want to cut manually, at the position
you want them cut.
This inserts a cutflag event in the bar at the position you clicked. If you hold down
[Alt]/[Option], a cutflag event is inserted for all voices in a polyphonic staff.
The following rules apply to cutflag events:
- If a bar contains a cutflag event, the automatic cutting mechanism is disabled
within that bar.
- All notes or rests that start before and end after a cutflag event are cut at the
position of the event.
- To display cutflag events, make sure that “Cutflag” is activated on the filter bar.
- To remove a cutflag event, either click again with the Cut Notes tool at the same
position, or select it and press [Backspace] or [Delete].
With a regular 4/4
time signature
With a composite time signature
(3+2+3 eighth notes)
A half note, placed at 2.1.3. This is by default cut at 2.3.1 (the middle of the bar). When you
click at the position 2.2.1, a cutflag event is inserted.
As a result, the regular cutting mechanism is disabled and the note is cut at the position
you clicked instead.