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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<li>Drag the scroll bar at the top of the screen, or
<li>Drag the hand over the desired note, or
<li>Press the left or right cursor keys.
You can extend a selection by holding the Shift key while pressing these.
You can scroll to the start or end of track by holding the Ctrl key while pressing these.
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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 Mixer page
and selecting a different Audio In port.
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To change a note's attributes such as pitch, volume, duration, staccato, or stem direction, or to delete a note, click on the note with the right mouse button.
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To change the volume for a range of notes, select the range of notes with the mouse and then adjust
the <b>Vol</b> slider.
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To change the stem direction for a range of notes, select the range of notes with
the mouse or shifted-cursor keys, then press the Ctrl-Key that is assigned to the Stem-Up or Stem-Down function on the Options page.
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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 Track 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,
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<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 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>
