Adding retakes with the popover

You can add retakes to sustain pedal lines using the playing techniques popover, both during note input and by adding them to existing music.
Note

You cannot add retakes to sostenuto or una corda pedal lines. Retakes only appear for sustain pedal lines with the Line continuation type.

Prerequisite

You have input a sustain pedal line.

Procedure

  1. In Write mode, do one of the following:
    • Start note input.

    • Select an item on each staff and at each rhythmic position where you want to input retakes.

  2. Optional: If you want to input notes and retakes onto multiple staves with sustain pedal lines at once, extend the caret to those staves.
  3. Open the playing techniques popover in any of the following ways:
    • Press Shift-P.

    • In the Notations toolbox, click Popovers Popovers button, then Playing Techniques Playing Techniques button.

  4. Enter ^ or retake into the popover.
  5. Press Return to close the popover.

Result

During note input, retakes are input at the caret position.

Outside of note input, retakes are input at each selected rhythmic position on each selected staff.

Tip

You can also input retakes by selecting notes within the ranges of sustain pedal lines and choosing Edit > Notations > Pedal Lines > Add Retake. You can also choose this option from the context menu.