Elements Properties

Composition properties

Set the score's parameters.

"General" - General properties of the score.

• "Staff interval" - Sets the interval (in the page metric) between staves on the page for all compositions.
• "Scale" - Sets the scale (from 50% to 200%) of the data on the sheet. (Used when printing or exporting to graphic formats.)
• "Note spacing" - Styles of the notes filling in the measures. "Evenly" - The space occupied by a note within a measure depends on the size and amount of graphical images. "Proportional" - The space occupied by a note within a measure depends on its duration. "Positional" - The staff is evenly divided by the number of measures and the position of the notes is set accordingly. "Space between notes" - Increases/decreases the space between notes. The default is 2 pixels. These settings are used for the entire composition, but you can set them for each staff separately "Setting measure alignment style."
• "Beaming note style" - specifies the way notes in the measure are beamed together. Options include 1) no beams; 2) beam all notes in the measure in one group; 3) beam notes according to time signature; 4) custom beaming. By default, these settings are used for the entire composition, but you can set them for each measure separately "Setting the style for beaming notes."
• "Alignment" - Sets the horizontal alignment of measures and the vertical alignment of staves on a sheet for all composition.
• "Empty pages at beginning" - Specifies the number of blank pages at the beginning of a composition. You can add text, pictures and other design elements to such pages.

"Page" - Sets up the score for the printer.

• "Metric" - Sets measurement of the page to millimeters, inches, or pixels.
• "Paper size" - Sets the printer paper orientation and dimensions to any of 26 predefined formats. Allows the user to define other exact dimensions by preselecting Custom from the dropdown list box.
• "Margin" - Sets the left, right, top and bottom margins of the page in millimeters, inches or pixels.

"Print settings" - Parameters for printing.

• "Print empty lines at end of composition" - If not selected, printing stops when data stops.
• "Print empty measures at end of composition" - If the previous option is selected, this option allows you to also print the empty measures at the end of the piece.
• "Print numbers of measure" - If not selected, measure numbers are not printed.

"Drum map" - Map of a composition. (Used to translate drum notes to MIDI events.)

"Layout" - Default time signature and measure indent..

"Signature" - You can specify the author, poet (lyricist), and copyright of the composition. You can also provide a description of the piece.

Part properties

Set the part parameters.

• "Name" - Name of the part used in the project tree.
• "Timbre" - Default MIDI patch used for playback if not specified for voices of this part.
• "Transposition" - Interval between notation and real pitches during playback.
• "Channel" - MIDI channel assigned to this part and used during playback.
• "Volume" - Volume of the MIDI channel assigned to this part.
• "Pan" - Pan of the MIDI channel assigned to this part.
• "Mute" - Mutes this part during playback.
• "Staff interval" - Sets the interval (in the page metric) between staves on the page for this page, if not marked, the interval from composition properties is used..

Staff properties

Set the staff parameters.

• "Scale" - Specifies the scaling of the staff and its symbols. Available options:
  • "Normal" - Same scale as for the whole score.
  • "Small" - The staff and its symbols are reduced by 50%.
  • "Custom" - Select a percentage from 50% through 150%.
• "Line count" - Number of lines that will appear on each staff.
• "Mute" - Mutes this staff during playback.
• "Tablature" - Check this to display the staff and its notes as a tablature.
  • "Fret count" - Number of frets on the instrument's fret board. (Used during note entry.)
  • "Show duration" - Set this to display stems and circular note heads for quarters and halves.
  • "Tuning" - Specifies the pitch of every string.
  • "Guitars" - Select a predefined instrument from a list.

Measure properties

Set measure parameters.

• "Time Signature" - Specifies the real duration of the measure if it is different from what is displayed in the time signature.
• "Staff break" - Check this box if you want the next measure to appear on a new line.
• "Page break" - Check this box if you want the next measure to appear on a new page. "Empty pages after break" specifies the number of pages without music after this measure where you can add text, pictures or other design elements.
• "Beaming note style" - specifies the way notes in the measure are beamed together. Options include 1) no beams; 2) beam all notes in the measure in one group; 3) beam notes according to time signature; 4) custom beaming.. By default, these settings are used for each measure separately "Setting the style for beaming notes."

Grace notes

Customizes grace note parameters. Grace notes are attached to the staff position, before or after the note, and may consist of several notes.

• "Place" - Placement of grace note(s) before or after the main note.
• "Style" - Short or long grace note(s).
• "Duration" - The real duration of grace note(s) sound.
• "Note spacing" - space between notes displayed in the part.
• "Slur" - when adding a grace note into the score, a slur is also added which connects the grace note not with the main one.
• "Duration" - the real duration or length of the grace notes on playback.

Text properties

Set text parameters.

• "Name" - Select a font name from a list of fonts.
• "Music" - Show/hide a panel for text input using music symbols.
• "Size" - Select font size.
• "Style" - Select bold, italic, strikeout and underline.
• "Continue" - This is normally needed for lyrics. It allows syllables to be assigned to more than one melody note. A dash is placed under notes as needed.

Instrument properties

The following properties of any orchestral instrument are used when adding an instrument to the score in the new composition window.

• "Name" - The name of the instrument being added to the score.
• "Abbr." - The abbreviated name of the instrument being added on the next staff of the score.
• "Group" - The name of the musical group to which the instrument belongs.
• "Order" - The order of the instrument in the group. (This is used if sorting is active when adding an instrument.)
• "Timbre" - The number of the MIDI instrument, which is selected from a predefined list.
• "Transposition" - Transposes the notes of an instrument during playback. You can select the transposition parameter from the list located in the main menu: "Templates" | "Transposition".
• "Line count" - The number of lines on a staff.
• "Accolade" - The type of bracket for the chosen instrument. There are three options for adding brackets to the staves:
  • "None" - No bracket is added to the staff of this instrument.
  • "One Instrument Only" - The bracket connects the staves of the given instrument only.
  • "For the Group" - The bracket connects the staves of the entire group of instruments.
• "Staff count" - The number of staves used by the instrument.
• "Clef" - The clef of each instrument displayed next to its staff.

Guitar properties

Guitar templates.

• "String count" - of the instrument.
• "Fret count" - of the instrument.
• "Timbre" - MIDI keyboard patch or voice being played by the instrument.
• "Transposition" - interval between notation and real sound of the transposing instrument.
• "Tuning" - pitch settings for strings of the instrument.
• "Second pair" - specifies doubling of notes of the instrument (as for 12 string guitar). If set, entering from guitar fretboard adds two notes at a time.