Other note details

Each note has a number of settings in the Set Note Info dialog.


The Set Note Info dialog contains the following settings:

Note Head

Used for selecting custom note head shapes.

Tablature on/off and number

Used for creating or editing tablature. This feature can be used for individual notes or together with the automatic tablature function.

Bows

Used for adding bow up/bow down articulation. When selecting “Off”, bow symbols are not displayed for the selected notes.

Figure: Bow up and down

Length

This allows you to change the displayed length of notes, without affecting playback. Note that the display quantize settings still apply. To reset this value to “Auto” (so that notes are displayed according to their actual length), scroll the value down to zero.

Accidental Distance

Use this to specify how far from the note, horizontally, you want the accidental. The higher the number the greater the distance.

No Ledger Lines

Turns off ledger lines for notes with high or low pitches.



Figure: With and without ledger lines

No Stem

Hides the note stem completely.

No Dot

Hides the dot from a dotted note.

No Flag/Beam

Activate this to hide the flags or beams of the selected notes.

Bracket Head

If this option is activated, notes are displayed with brackets:



Figure: Bracket Head on and off

X Stem (Spoken)

If this option is activated for a note, it is displayed with an x across its stem. This is normally used to indicate spoken words.

Hide Note

Activating this checkbox hides the selected notes.

Stem

Determines the stem direction.

Tie

Determines the direction of ties. When this is set to “Auto”, the program chooses a tie direction depending on the stem direction of the tied notes.

Type

Determines the note type. There are four options:

  • Normal. This is how notes usually are displayed.

  • Grace. When this is selected, notes are displayed as grace notes.

  • Cue. When this is selected, notes are displayed as cue notes (smaller notes, often used as “guide notes” or optional lines).

  • Graphic. These are special notes, useful for example for guitar notation (pull-offs) and trills (as “help notes”, indicating which notes to trill between). In both these cases the “No Stems” option could be useful.

    Graphic notes are not included in the “automated cutting”. They are positioned after the notes they “belong to” (as opposed to grace notes).

Crossed

Activate this option, when you want the stem to be crossed by a slanted line (to indicate that the note is a grace note).

Grace note options

These options are available when Grace is selected on the Type pop-up menu.