The mouse position info

While you often use the graphical position in the actual score to determine where the notes go, there are instances when you want to verify the position numerically using the mouse position info displayed in the status line.

The Mouse Note Position display shows the pitch according to the vertical position of the pointer in a staff. The Mouse Time Position display shows the “musical position” in bars, beats, sixteenth notes, and ticks:

• The relation between beats and bars depends on the time signature: In 4/4 there are 4 beats to a bar. In 8/8 there are eight, in 6/8 there are six, etc.

• The third number is the sixteenth note within the beat. Again, the time signature determines the number of sixteenth notes to each beat. In a quarter note based time signature (4/4, 2/4, etc.) there are four sixteenth notes to each beat, in an eighth note based time signature (3/8, 4/8, etc.), there are two sixteenth notes, etc.

• The last value is in ticks, with 480 ticks per quarter note (and thus 120 ticks per sixteenth note).

The figures below show some note positions and their corresponding position values:

Table 1. Eighth note positions

2/2	1.1.1.0	1.1.3.0	1.1.5.0	1.1.7.0	1.2.1.0	1.2.3.0	1.2.5.0	1.2.7.0
4/4	1.1.1.0	1.1.3.0	1.2.1.0	1.2.3.0	1.1.3.0	1.3.3.0	1.4.1.0	1.4.3.0
8/8	1.1.1.0	1.2.1.0	1.3.1.0	1.4.1.0	1.5.1.0	1.6.1.0	1.7.1.0	1.8.1.0

Table 2. Eighth note triplet positions

2/2	1.1.1.0	1.1.2.40	1.1.3.80	1.1.5.0	1.1.6.40	1.1.7.80
4/4	1.1.1.0	1.1.2.40	1.1.3.80	1.2.1.0	1.2.2.40	1.2.3.80
8/8	1.1.1.0	1.1.2.40	1.2.1.80	1.3.1.0	1.3.2.40	1.4.1.80

Table 3. Sixteenth note positions

2/2	1.1.1.0	1.1.2.0	1.1.3.0	1.1.4.0	1.1.5.0	1.1.6.0	1.1.7.0	1.1.8.0
4/4	1.1.1.0	1.1.2.0	1.1.3.0	1.1.4.0	1.2.1.0	1.2.2.0	1.2.3.0	1.2.4.0
8/8	1.1.1.0	1.1.2.0	1.2.1.0	1.2.2.0	1.3.1.0	1.3.2.0	1.4.1.0	1.4.2.0