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- This page shows the music for the active track, selected in the <b>Record</b> page.
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- Since the track's <b>Type</b> attribute is set to <b>Instrument</b>, it shows sheet music.
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- To change the song's current <b>position</b>:
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- Drag the scroll bar at the top of the screen, or
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- Drag the hand over the desired note.
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- To <b>insert</b> a new note,
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- position the hand over the place to insert the note,
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- select a note symbol from the palette by clicking on it,
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- set the volume control to the desired volume for the new note,
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- play the desired note on the on-screen keyboard or your synthesizer's keyboard.
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- To <b>build a chord</b>, hold the shift key down until the last note in the chord is pressed.
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- You can also drag a note from the palette to a desired location on the staff.
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- You can also sing a note into your microphone and press the button
- with the picture of a microphone to insert the note on the staff.
- If this does not seem to be working, try turning to the Synths page
- and selecting a different Audio In port.
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- To change a note's attributes, or delete a note, click on the note with the right mouse button.
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- To move a note up or down on the staff, drag it straight up or down with
- the mouse while pressing the left mouse button. If you drag it beyond the
- top of the staff, it will leave the note unchanged. If you drag it beyond
- the bottom of the staff, it will remove the note from the song.
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- If you click the toolbar button
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- you can hear the note played as you drag it.
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- To manipulate a range of notes, drag the
- mouse over the desired range while pressing the left mouse button, and then select
- one of the following items from the Edit menu:
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- <li>Cut -- removes selected notes, copying them to the clipboard
- <li>Copy -- copies selected notes to the clipboard
- <li>Paste Mix -- mixes notes from the clipboard with notes at the current position
- <li>Paste Insert -- inserts notes from the clipboard at the current position
- <li>Delete Selection -- remove all selected notes, shifting the notes that follow to the left left
- <li>Silent -- remove all selected notes, leaving the notes that follow where they are
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- To insert <b>Slurs, Crescendos, Decrescendos,</b> and <b>Repeat</b> symbols:
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- <li>position the cursor where you want the symbol added
- <li>select a range of notes if you want the symbol to apply to a range
- <li>select <b>Insert Notation...</b> from the Edit menu.
- <li>select the symbol that you want to add.
- <li>click on the new symbol to move it within the measure or change its size.
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- To see this track's lyrics,
- click the field named <b>Staff</b> and change it to <b>Lyrics</b>.
- To edit the track's lyrics:
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- <li>move the mouse to the note you'd like the words to go with,
- <li>press the right mouse button, and
- <li>select Lyrics.
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- Frequenly, standard MIDI songs have lyrics stored on their own track.
- If you have loaded such a song, select Merge from the edit menu
- to merge the lyrics track into track that has the notes you
- want displayed with lyrics.
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- To display a chord label above the staff,
- <dir>
- <li>move the mouse to the note you'd like the label to go with,
- <li>press the right mouse button, and
- <li>select Chord.
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- To insert Time Signatures and Key Signatures in the middle of a track,
- position the cursor within the measure that you want to change,
- and then change the Key: or Time: field in the panel below the staff.
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- To change the song's tempo, click on the <b>Metronome</b> tab below.
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- If you would like to use your computer keyboard to enter notes,
- the keys between <b>Q</b> and <b>]</b> can be used as a row of <i>white</i> piano keys,
- while the keys between <b>2</b> and <b>=</b> can be used as the <i>black</i> piano keys between them.
- Similarly, the keys between and <b>Z</b> and <b>/</b>, and <b>S</b> and <b>;</b> can be used as
- another row of piano keys. To change the octaves that they represent,
- move the mouse over the piano keyboard and press the Right mouse button.
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- To change note duration from the keyboard, press keys <b>F1</b> through <b>F6</b>.
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- To toggle the Dotted Note checkbox, press <b>F7</b>.
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- To toggle the Staccato checkbox, press <b>F8</b>.
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- To insert a single dotted note, press the <b>Ctrl</b> key while playing the note.
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- To toggle Insert Mode, press the <b>Ins</b> key.
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- To view this track in piano-roll format, click the field named <b>Staff</b>
- and change it to <b>Piano Roll</b>.
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