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Additional note and rest formatting
Tuplets
3. Activate Crossed, if needed.
When this is activated, the stem is crossed by a slanted line, to further indicate that
the note is a grace note.
4. Click Apply.
The settings are applied to the selected notes.
5. Close the dialog.
Converting grace notes to normal notes
1. Select the notes that you want to convert.
If you want to make sure that all notes in the score are normal notes, you can select
all notes (using the Select All command on the Edit menu).
2. Double-click on one of the selected grace notes.
The Set Note Info dialog appears.
3. Select “Normal” from the “Type” pop-up menu.
4. Click Apply.
Tuplets
The regular Display Quantize values do not apply to any other divisions than triplets.
To create quintuplets, septuplets, etc., follow the instructions below.
There are two methods for creating tuplets:
- With permanent alteration to the MIDI data. This is the “drawing” mode to use
when you want to build the tuplet from scratch. It does not put any demand on the
notes’ positions before the tuplet is created.
- As display quantize. This is the method you use when the tuplet is recorded and
plays back as you want it, but is not displayed correctly.
Actually, in the first case, you make permanent alterations and set display quantize
settings, all in one go. In the second case you only make display quantize settings.
With permanent change to MIDI data
1. Insert as many notes as the tuplet consists of.
This would typically be 5, 7 or 9. If the tuplet contains rests, simply leave space for
those, but make sure that the current Display Quantize value allows them to be
shown.
Five sixteenth notes, about to be converted to a quintuplet.
2. Select all the notes that make up the tuplet.
3. Select “Build N-Tuplet…” from the Scores menu.
The Tuplets dialog appears.
4. Set the type of tuplet in the Type field.
“5” means a quintuplet, “7” means a septuplet, etc.