The Cut Notes tool

By using the Cut Notes tool, you can disable the automatic cutting mechanism in a bar, and insert manual cuts at any given position in the score.

1. Select the Cut Notes tool.

   

2. Select a suitable quantize value from the “Quantize Presets” pop-up menu.

   As usual, this determines where you can click.

3. When you are using polyphonic voices, select the voice you want to make settings for.
4. Click in the bar containing the notes that you want to cut manually, at the position you want them cut.

   This inserts a cutflag event in the bar at the position you clicked. If you hold down Alt, a cutflag event is inserted for all voices in a polyphonic staff.

   A half note, placed at 2.1.3. This is by default cut at 2.3.1 (the middle of the bar). When you click at the position 2.2.1, a cutflag event is inserted.

   

   As a result, the regular cutting mechanism is disabled and the note is cut at the position you clicked instead.

   The following rules apply to cutflag events:

   • If a bar contains a cutflag event, the automatic cutting mechanism is disabled within that bar.

   • All notes or rests that start before and end after a cutflag event are cut at the position of the event.

   • To display cutflag events, make sure that “Cutflag” is activated on the filter bar.

   • To remove a cutflag event, either click again with the Cut Notes tool at the same position, or select it and press Backspace or Delete.