Changing the direction of guitar pre-bends/pre-dives

You can change the direction of guitar pre-bends/pre-dives individually. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only, or for all layouts and frame chains. By default, guitar pre-bends/pre-dives are positioned on the notehead-side of notes in single-voice contexts. In multiple-voice contexts, they are positioned on the stem-side of notes.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

  • You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. Select the guitar pre-bends/pre-dives whose direction you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Pre-bend direction in the Guitar Pre-bends group.
  3. Choose one of the following options:
    • Up

    • Down

Result

The direction of the selected guitar pre-bends/pre-dives is changed. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip

You can change the direction of guitar bends on notation staves by selecting them and pressing F. However, you cannot use this key command for guitar pre-bends/pre-dives.