Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel

The Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel allows you to create and input common key signatures.

  • You can hide/show the Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel by clicking Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals in the Notations toolbox on the right of the window in Write mode.

    You can also hide/show the panel whose icon is currently selected in the Notations toolbox by pressing Ctrl/Cmd-9 or clicking the disclosure arrow on the right of the window.

The Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel contains the following sections:

Used in This Flow

Contains all the key signatures currently used in the flow.

Key Signatures

Allows you to create key signatures.

The Key Signatures section of the Key Signatures, Tonality Systems, and Accidentals panel

The Key Signatures section contains the following parts:

  1. Major/Minor

    Allow you to choose whether your key signature is Major or Minor.

  2. More Sharps/Fewer Flats

    Each time you click, you add one sharp accidental to the key signature, or remove one flat accidental from the key signature.

  3. Fewer Sharps/More Flats

    Each time you click, you remove one sharp accidental from the key signature, or add one flat accidental to the key signature.

  4. Input key signature

    Shows how the key signature looks on a staff. Clicking this button inputs the displayed key signature. If nothing in the project is selected, the key signature is loaded onto the mouse pointer.

Accidentals

Contains all accidentals available in the currently selected tonality system.