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.

  • If you want to change the notehead design to represent different playing techniques for notes belonging to unpitched percussion instruments, you can instead change their playing technique.

  • If you want to change the notehead design to represent harmonics or rhythm slashes, you can instead turn notes into harmonics or change them to a slash voice. You can also input slash regions.

Procedure

  1. Select the noteheads whose design you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the secondary toolbar, click Context Menu Context Menu button and choose Notehead > [Notehead type] > [Notehead design].

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

Result

The notehead design of the selected notes is changed.

Tip

You can assign a key command for each factory default notehead design on the Key Commands page in Preferences.