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.

Prerequisite

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

Procedure

  1. Select the noteheads whose design you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. Choose Edit > Notations > Notehead > [Notehead type] > [Notehead design].

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

    Tip

    You can also choose these options from the context menu.

Result

The notehead design of the selected notes is changed.

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

  • You can assign a key command for each factory default notehead design and custom notehead designs that you have saved as default on the Key Commands page in Preferences.