ScoreManager®
How to get there
Choose Window > ScoreManager or press CTRL+K.
What it does
The ScoreManager is a realizable floating window that allows you to view, edit, reorder, and delete score Instruments. This includes the ability to change staff settings, transposition, and others. The ScoreManager also allows you to assign playback sounds. These staff and sound assignment options are available under the Instrument List tab.
To resize the ScoreManager window, click and drag the lower right corner.
As a modeless, floating window, changes made in the ScoreManager apply instantly to the score. All of NotePad's menu commands remain available when the ScoreManager is open.
Instrument List
The Instrument List includes an expandable row for each Instrument in the score. If the Instrument contains more than one staff, such as a piano grand staff, click the 
to the left of the Name to expand the row, showing the individual staves. Click the to the left of any Staff Name to display the individual layers, chords, expressions, and mid-score instrument changes. (Individual staves, layers, expressions, and chords in mid-score instrument changes are not available for editing).
Click the arrow to the left of the Instrument name to display individual layers, chords, expressions, and mid-score instrument changes.
The several columns of the ScoreManager also allow you to adjust mixer settings (mute/solo/pan) and assign (VST or MIDI) sounds to Instruments. These settings can be assigned to Instrument's layers, chords, expressions, and mid-score instrument changes.
Use the columns of the ScoreManager to configure sound and mixer settings.
For more information on managing Instruments with multiple staves (like piano), see Multi-staff Instruments.
- Name. This is the Full Staff Name of the Instrument (as defined in the lower portion of the ScoreManager).
- M
(Mute). In this column, a black square appears across from the
name of each staff that you want to mute when you play your score. By
clicking in this column across from a certain staff, you make the square
appear, indicating that the staff will not sound when you play the
score. If you’ve expanded a staff to view its individual
layer assignments, and you turn on the Mute setting for some layers but
not others, the square in the Mute column will appear striped. That is
your signal that the individual layers of the staff have mixed settings
in the Mute column.
- S
(Solo). When you click in the Solo column across from a staff name,
a black circle appears. In other words, you’ve just isolated a staff so
that only it will play back, and all the other staves are silent. (You
could achieve the same effect by clicking the Mute column for all other
staves—but that would take much more time and effort.) You can solo more than one staff, if you wish—for
example, you can solo two or three staves, and all the others will be
silent. In fact, you can solo all staves, although there wouldn’t be much
point, since you may as well solo none of them.
Note. If a dot appears
in the Solo column, only the soloed staves (or instruments) will play
back.
- Vol. You
can use this text box specify an exact volume value, 0-127, for a staff,
and all other staves set to the same channel.
- Pan. Use this text box to specify an exact
pan value, 0-127, for a staff, and all other staves set to the same channel.
A higher value pans right, a lower value pans left. Playback volume will
be weighted to the left or right speaker accordingly. 64 is center.
- Device. This column lists the MIDI output device specified for the channel in the MIDI Setup dialog box.
- Sound. This column lists the playback sound, when available. It displays the General MIDI instrument (or equivalent). Click the drop-down arrow and choose from the complete list of General MIDI sounds. Click Edit Patch to open the Set Patch To dialog box where you can define MIDI patch information for your external MIDI output device.
- Prg
The number in this column identifies the program (synthesizer sound) number
assigned to each staff (or layer). To edit it, just double-click the number
and type a new one.
- Ch.
This column displays the MIDI channel assignment for each staff
(or layer), from 1 to 64 (or 32, if your MIDI interface is a 32 bit card).
To change this number, double-click, and type a new channel. If you’ve assigned several staves to the same
Instrument, by the way, remember that they’re all linked to the same MIDI
channel. Therefore, if you edit the Ch. assignment for any one of these
staves, the Chan. for all of them will change to match, because any given
Instrument can only have one channel assignment.
- Perc MIDI Map. Click this drop-down menu to choose the desired Percussion MIDI Map for playback. See Percussion MIDI Maps.
- Reverb Type. This setting has the effect of simulating a room size to make your music sound as though it is being performed in a small room, concert hall, or others in between.
- Reverb Level. This slider controls the overall amount of decay, or length of time a sound persists after released. This slider setting applies to the overall output. Click and drag to the right to increase the reverb effect, or left to decrease the reverb effect.
Multi-staff Instruments
Initially, the ScoreManager presents each Instrument as a single row, no matter how many staves that Instrument contains. A piano, for example, usually includes two staves, a treble clef staff for the right hand and a bass clef staff for the left hand. NotePad allows you to edit the staff-specific settings for each of those staves individually. Click the expand triangle next to the Instrument name provides access to each staff.
NotePad presents multi-staff Instruments as an expanding set of rows.
Mid-score Instruments
Adding mid-score instrument changes (from, for example, Flute to Oboe) is not a feature of NotePad. However, if you open a file that was created in Finale that includes mid-score instrument changes, you can view them using the ScoreManager. Click the expand arrow to the left of the original Instrument Name (the one that starts on measure 1). Mid-score instrument changes appear below the Expressions row.
Mid-score instrument changes can be viewed by clicking the expand arrow to the left of the Instrument Name.
