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Notation reference
Notes
Notes are shapes that are positioned on staves to indicate musical pitches. Notes are most commonly shown with oval-shaped, round noteheads that are either filled or void depending on their duration, but there are many different designs of noteheads that you can use.
Notehead sets
A notehead set is a collection of related noteheads that together allow you to represent all the different noteheads required for the different durations used in music notation.
Changing the notehead design of individual noteheads
You can change the notehead design of individual noteheads, including trill auxiliary notes. For example, cross noteheads might be used to indicate where players should produce pitchless sounds, such as air sounds on wind instruments.

Changing the notehead design of individual noteheads

You can change the notehead design of individual noteheads, including trill auxiliary notes. For example, cross noteheads might be used to indicate where players should produce pitchless sounds, such as air sounds on wind instruments.

Note

These steps do not apply to notes in slash voices.

Procedure

Select the noteheads whose design you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
Choose Edit > Notehead > [Notehead type] > [Notehead design]. You can also choose these options from the context menu.

For example, to change the notehead design of the selected notes to X noteheads, choose Edit > Notehead > Crosses > X Noteheads.

Result

The notehead design of the selected notes is changed.

Tip

You can also change the notehead design for all noteheads project-wide.