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<HTML> <BODY BACKGROUND="BGnd.jpg" BGCOLOR= "#C0D9D9"> This page shows the music for the active track, selected in the Mixer page. Since the track's Type attribute is set to Instrument, it shows sheet music. If you would rather edit a Piano Roll format, click the field that says Staff and change it to Piano Roll. If you would rather enter notes using guitar frets rather than piano keys, or if you would like to see note-name labels on each piano key, click the on-screen piano with the right mouse button. To change the song's current position: <dir> <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. </dir> To insert a new note, <dir> <li>position the hand over the place to insert the note, <li>select a note symbol from the palette by clicking on it, <li>set the volume control to the desired volume for the new note, <li>play the desired note on the on-screen keyboard or your synthesizer's keyboard. <li>To build a chord while composing, hold the Shift key down before entering the first note of the chord, and release the shift key after entering the last note in the chord is pressed. </dir> To insert a rest, press the Insert Rest button. To insert several measures of rests, press the Whole Note symbol above the Insert Rest button, and then double-click on the Insert-Rest button. To build a chord using the guitar fret window instead of the piano keyboard, <dir> <li>press the shift key, <li>click the mouse on all of the frets you want to press, <li>click the far left of open strings that you want played, <li>don't click strings that you want to remain silent, <li>when you release the shift key, the chord will be inserted. </dir> You can also drag a note from the palette to a desired location on the staff. 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. To change the volume for a range of notes, select the range of notes with the mouse and then adjust the Vol slider. To change a note's properties such as pitch, volume, duration, staccato, or stem direction, or to delete a note, click on the note with the right mouse button. For example, if you want to change a notes accidental from Bb to A#, click the note on the staff with the right mouse button, select the Properties popup menu, and click the Enharmonic checkbox. If you find yourself changing note properties very often, consider adding a keyboard shortcut. To do this, select Options from the View menu and set the appropriate values for Anvil Studio Action and Computer Key that should trigger the action. Then, you can simply press that key instead of bringing up the Note Properties window. 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. To change a note's start time, click the note with the right mouse button, and then select the Shift note's start time..." popup menu. A short-cut way to do this is to press the Ctrl key and then drag the note right or left while pressing the left mouse button and the Ctrl key. Then, release the mouse button before releasing the Ctrl key. To delete an individual rest, and shift the notes that follow it to the left, press the mouse's left button and to the left of the rest, and drag the mouse to the right while the button remains pressed until the staff looks like: <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="delRest.gif"> Then, press the Del key. 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. If you click the toolbar button <IMG BORDER=0 SRC="swipe.gif"> you can hear the note played as you drag it. 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: <dir> <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 </dir> To insert Slurs, Crescendos, Decrescendos, and Repeat symbols: <dir> <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 Insert Notation... from the Edit menu. <li>select the symbol that you want to add. <li>click on the new symbol to move it up, down, right, or left within the measure or change its size. </dir> To see this track's lyrics, click the field named Staff and change it to Lyrics. To edit the track's lyrics: <dir> <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. For multi-verse lyrics, type several lines in this field. They will all be displayed when printed, but only the first verse will be shown on the screen-staff. </dir> 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. 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. </dir> 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. To change the song's tempo, select Metronome from the View menu. If you would like to use your computer keyboard to enter notes, the keys between Q and ] can be used as a row of white piano keys, while the keys between 2 and = can be used as the black piano keys between them. Similarly, the keys between and Z and /, and S and ; 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. To change note duration from the keyboard, press keys F1 through F6. To toggle the Dotted Note checkbox, press F7. To toggle the Staccato checkbox, press F8. To toggle Insert Mode, press the Ins key. If you want more precise control over the time where you drag notes, change the Grid field to any value other than -- no grid--. The staff will be divided by equally-spaced vertical grey lines. This makes it easy to drag a note from the palette, or an existing note from the staff, to the exact time position you want it. To view this track in piano-roll format, click the field named Staff and change it to Piano Roll. </body> </HTML>