Selection Tool

The powerful Selection Tool has inherited all the functionality of the former Mass Edit Tool. Adapted for selecting measure regions, the Selection Tool is now PrintMusic’s universal editing utility.

With the selection tool you can:

• Cut, copy or paste music
• Change time and key signatures and clefs
• Transpose
• Add repeats
• Adjust expressions, change bar lines, and more

Accomplish more without changing tools

• Get what you need faster from streamlined menus.
• Keep your momentum going with more powerful contextual menus and intuitive new keystrokes.
• Get it done using the Selection Tool or other tools that support copy/paste, measure additions, transposition, measure layout, and much more.

Cut/Copy/Paste Improvements

PrintMusic’s streamlined, easy-to-use interface lets you focus on the music with less switching tools and more universal menu commands specifically designed to help you finish projects faster.

The most intuitive cut/copy/paste/insert for more efficient workflow

• Use intuitive keystrokes to select measures or partial measures horizontally and vertically. No need to visit a menu.
• Consistent clipboard- and drag-copying make it easy to copy all measure items, even between documents.
• Quickly drag and drop music, even over highlighted regions. Make small adjustments easily, like shifting music a beat or two right or left.
• Paste faster: no need to highlight the entire destination when clipboard-copying.
• Get improved visual feedback when pasting and inserting.

  
  Different-colored cursors indicate how your music will be inserted.

  
  Use intuitive keystrokes to select additional staves

  
  Additional notes...

  
  or additional measures without using the mouse.

Staff Layout – Improved in PrintMusic 2011

Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move, and edit staves.

Moving Staves

It’s now incredibly easy to move staves. Want to increase the distance between staves? Click and drag.

• Your music updates automatically as you drag and you receive on-screen feedback about the distance between the staves and what staves will be impacted.
• Dragging or nudging one staff now also moves the staves below it to retain relative staff spacing and the dragging moves the staves in real-time, so you instantly see the results.
• Plus, when you add a new system it will now reflect the staff spacing of the previous system.

Reordering Staves

PrintMusic makes it easy to move staves or groups of staves with a single click – while retaining all positioning. No more dragging and repositioning.

Hiding Staves

PrintMusic even makes it easy to hide staves that contain music.

• Need parts for an instrument that you don't want to appear in the score? Simply hide staves in the score.
• Want an unseen playback effect? Hide a staff!