Advanced Note Selection Command Location: Edit Menu

Using the MidiIllustrator clipboard you can cut, copy and paste notation from one part of the score to another, or even to another score.

Keyboard Shortcuts exist for these commands.

These commands are only available in Edit Mode. All kinds of notation can be copied and pasted from one part of the score to another, or to a different score, as long both scores are in Edit Mode.

Once items are selected, they can be cut or copied to the clipboard, and then pasted as many times as desired.

Copying/Pasting Large Ranges

For copying/pasting large selections (including multi-track selections of notes/rests), use Pow er Edit instead.

Cut Cuts the current selection from the score, and places them on the clipboard ready for pasting elsew here in the score, or in another open score.

Copy Copies the current selection to the clipboard ready for pasting elsew here in the score, or in another open score.

Another way to Make Copies of Complete Staves

If you w ish to make a copy of one or more complete staves including notation, instrument, name and other staff properties, then try "making a copy of the selected staff" w ith the Staff Manager Dialog

Paste and 'Insert & Paste'

Pastes any selection previously cut or copied from the score to the clipboard. In order to protect existing score content w hen using the clipboard, some rules apply to w here and how certain copied selections can be pasted into the score. Specifically:

In Normal Entry (Edit Mode), only note/rest selections from single tracks can be pasted from the clipboard. For multi-track operations such as this, use Pow er Edit instead.

Since tuplets are treated as a unit and have to kept intact, paste operations w hich overlap or interfere w ith existing tuplets are not possible.

Note: In Pow er Edit Mode you can also use the Insert & Paste command to automatically create new measures as you paste/insert a copied range.

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5.2.2

Advanced Note Selection

The Advanced Note Selection Dialog allow s you to make note selections in the score using many different criteria.

Selection Criteria & Selection Range

range that the selection should apply to. If there is a current note selection in the score, then you can choose to apply any advanced selection action to just that existing selection, rather than a measure/staff range (Checkbox: Use current selection as range).

Notes in hidden staves w ill not be selected (show or hide staves using the Staff Manager Dialog).

Once you have made a selection, you can apply commands to the selected notes using commands from the Notes Menu.

General Select all the notes in the range, or invert any existing selection. Pitch Select all the notes above or below a certain pitch.

A value of 60 is the MIDI pitch for Middle C.

Click the "Above" or "Below " value to change it to another value betw een 20 and 100.

Chords Select the various parts of a chord. A chord is a group of notes:

of identical duration in a single timespan in a single staff

This selection criteria is useful for picking out melody or harmony notes in a chord or range of chords.

Tie Notes Select tie notes or parts of tie note sequences.

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5.3

View menu

The View menu offers the follow ing commands:

Window View Displays the score on the screen making full use of the size of the monitor screen. It is not a representation of how the score w ill appear w hen printed (see page view below ) but it makes the best use of your screen 'real estate'!

Page View (Print Preview) Page View is the same as Print Preview .

This view allow s you to evaluate the score prior to sending it to print, and therefore to adjust the page layout or printer set up as desired before printing. The score is displayed on the screen as it w ill appear printed using the current printer setup and page layout. Scroll View (Editing) This view ing mode applies the same rules for

layout as Window view , except that the format for the score is a single system w hich scrolls horizontally along the page. This makes editing much simpler as the dynamic changes to the score object sizes w hich occur as you edit (eg staff height) do not result in constant reformatting of the score.

Hide Staff Notation - Show Timeline A view of the score in w hich traditional staff notation is temporarily hidden, and instead staves in the score are 'compressed' show n as a compact timeline (Performance Mode Only)

Toolbars Show s or hides the follow ing Toolbars:

File

Toolbars and Zoom Perform

Volume and Tempo Lists

Editing Palettes Measure

Modes and View s

The Editing Palettes toolbar is context sensitive and w ill become visible depending on the editing state MidiIllustrator is in.

The ‘Restore Default Toolbar Layout’ option reverses all changes made to the toolbars and reinstates the original toolbar layout.

Status Bar Show s or hides the status bar at the bottom of the screen. You can show a list of Status Bar display options by right clicking on the Status Bar.

Display Solfege Note Names Displays Solfege note names instead of names A-G on both the score (w hen individual note names are enabled) and also the On-Screen Piano Keyboard and On-Screen Guitar Fretboard.

Full Screen Enter/Leave Full Screen Mode

Keyboard Allow s you to:

show /hide the On-Screen Piano Keyboard (OSP)

dock the OSP keyboard in position

toggle betw een the full size OSP keyboard and the cropped keyboard

show note names on the OSP keyboard keys show finger numbers on the OSP keyboard keys during playback (finger numbers must be assigned to notes before the finger number can be show n on keys as they are played)

show /hide Performing Hands on the

keyboard during playback (fingering must be assigned to notes before they can be played) edit the keyboard colors, including piano key highlighting colors

Highlight Middle C on the On-Screen Piano Keyboard for easier orientation.

For further information, see the On Screen Piano Keyboard section.

Fretboard Allow s you to:

show /hide the On-Screen Guitar Fretboard (OSF)

dock the fretboard in position

toggle betw een the full size OSF and the cropped OSF

show note names on the OSF strings edit the fretboard colors

For further information, see the On-Screen Guitar Fretboard section.

Metronome Light Allow s you to show /hide and dock/undock the Metronome Light.

You may also edit the metronome light flashing colors in the Program Colors dialog.

Zoom Allow s you to zoom in and out of the score.

Note that zooming does not change the actual printing size of the notation it simply alters the magnification of the score on the screen. For more information see Zooming vs Print Size. Once you have found a zoom setting you are happy w ith, this can be set as your Preferred Zoom - also available a command from the "Toolbars & Zoom" toolbar.

Navigation Commands Allow s you to navigate the score by reference to Page, Measure, Staff/System and Item. Cursor Navigation During Playback Whilst playing the score, holding dow n the Control key during the main navigation commands w ill move the playback cursor and then restart playback from the new cursor location.

Shortcuts are available for each command. Go Directly to Score Location... Opens the Goto... dialog box and enables you

to select the Bookmark, Page or Measure that you w ish to find, and w ill take you to that part of the score.

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5.3.1

Window View & Scroll View versus Page View