Entering Music With Mouse And Note-Value-Palette


The note-value-palette appears with pressed |Alt| Button.



Now, click directly into the stave. The notes are inserted accordingly, or they are overwritten.


The small note-value-palette appears directly under the entry-cursor and hikes with the entry. The long ways, that usually must be made with the mouse, remain short.


You can enter the rests with the right mouse-button through click onto the stave.


Before entering Triplets, click on the icon '3' below the corresponding note-value.


To insert dotted notes, click on the point under the corresponding note-value.


In order to get accidentals, you can pretend an alteration before input of the note:


"Plus" raises the pitch of a note.

"Minus" decreases the pitch of a note.


In order to insert the chords, at firdt click on the icon "chord entry mode".

After you have released  |Alt|- key, you can immediately continue to work on normally .

You get a very fast possibility to supplement as well as to change a few notes in the score.


Important reference:


With longer entering music with the note-value-palette, a certain number of bars per line in the menu "layout / page layout score" should be pretended, so the bars remain at the same position and  you don't need to look constantly for the position, at which you work exactly.


Furthermore, one should work in the page-view mode and possibly use zoom factor adjusted on 125 per cent.


Entering music with the note-value-palette continuously


If you want to input a larger number of notes, you can click with "alt" key depressed  on the same-named-button (in this case "Alt" icon on the display) in the note-value-palette. The palette now remains visible, even if you release |Alto|- button (key).


If you want to place the note-value-palette manually, so you click on the icon |Fix|.

After that you can move the palette manually with pressed 'Ctrl' button (key).


Tip: If you made a mistake, you can overwrite your entry, or use "Undo" function ( Ctrl+Z)

See also "tricks to the fast-input"