To
edit keyboard notes
While it’s much easier to edit your performance
once it’s been transcribed into standard notation, you can, if you wish,
edit notes directly in the Transcription window.
- Click the word Keyboard. The word becomes
highlighted. You’ve just indicated that you’ll be editing notes only.
For better control, you can “zoom in” by choosing View Resolution from
the Transcription menu. In the dialog box that appears, enter a smaller
value to enlarge the display—50, for example; click OK.
- To delete notes, drag through their starting
point and press delete.
- To insert a new note, double-click in the Keyboard
area. The Keyboard area is the bottom three-quarters of the display
window, where the other notes appear. When you double-click and drag to
the right, a new note appears, whose pitch is determined by the location
of your click; use the piano keyboard at the left side of the screen as
a guide.
Technical note: The
note’s initial duration is 15 units; the value of a unit is determined
by the number in the View Resolution dialog box. In other words, if the
View Resolution (the unit) is 100 (in thousandths of a second), the note
produced by a double-click is 1500 thousandths of a second long—which
is 1.5 seconds. If you hold the mouse button down on your second click,
you can drag backward (to the right) to increase the duration of the note.
- To move the attack (or release) of the note,
carefully double-click the line; on the second click, keep the mouse button
down and drag the first (or second) half of the line right or left.