Setup Wizard
How to get there
From the File menu, choose New, then Document
with Setup Wizard. Or, in the Launch Window, select Setup Wizard.
What it does
The Setup Wizard will help you to setup
a PrintMusic project with your own custom instrumentation, a title, composer,
and other file information. It also offers a selection of document styles
that allow you to automatically begin with libraries of musical elements
suited to a specific type of score.
- Title • Composer • Copyright. Enter the Title, Composer and copyright of your piece here
and PrintMusic will automatically enter them into the document for you.
- Page Size • Portrait • Landscape. Select the page size you want to use and whether the document
will be portrait or landscape.
- Cancel • Next. Click Cancel to exit out of the Setup Wizard and return to PrintMusic with no
document open. Click Next to continue on to the next dialog box in the Setup Wizard.
- Families • Parts: Add Remove. Select a certain instrumental family, and add the part
selected from the Parts column. The parts that are selected will be displayed in the list on the
right. Parts will be added in Score order. If you want to Remove a part from the list on the
right, highlight the part and click remove. The family and part information is stored in the text
file Instrument.txt and can be edited to your specifications. See CONFIGURING INSTRUMENT.
TXT in the Appendix.
- Score Order • [Arrows]. If you prefer to have the parts in your score listed in a different
order, deselect Score Order and use the arrows to move the highlighted part up or down in the
list on the right.
- Back • Next • Cancel. Click Back to return to the first page of the Setup Wizard. Click Next
to continue to the next page of the Setup Wizard. Click Cancel to exit out of the Setup Wizard
and return to PrintMusic with no document open.
- Select a Time Signature. Select a time signature from several common time signatures.
- Select a Concert Key Signature. Use the scroll bar to select a key. Click the up arrow to add
sharps or subtract flats; click the down arrow to add flats or subtract sharps. Use the drop
down menu to specify major or minor.
- Back • Next • Cancel. Click Back to return to the first page of the Setup Wizard. Click Next
to continue to the next page of the Setup Wizard. Click Cancel to exit out of the Setup Wizard
and return to PrintMusic with no document open.
- Specify Initial Tempo Marking. Check this box to have PrintMusic place a tempo marking
on the first measure of the score. This Expression will affect the playback tempo. If desired, in
the text box, enter the text you would like to appear above the first measure of the score. Click
the quarter note to change the beats per minute. To edit the tempo marking later, see EXPRESSIONS.
- Specify Pickup Measures. Check this box to have PrintMusic create a pickup measure at the
beginning of the score. Click on the note corresponding to the sum of the pickup note or notes.
- Default Music Font: Maestro • Jazz. Select the default file you want to use to create your
score. Click Maestro to use a default file with the Maestro music font. Click Jazz to use a
default file with the Jazz music font. If you wish to customize these templates, make the
changes to the Maestro Font Default or Jazz Font Default files in the PrintMusic folder.
- Back • Finish • Cancel. Click Back to return to the third page of the Wizard. Click Finish and
PrintMusic will create your score, based on your choices and the default file. Click Cancel to
exit out of the Setup Wizard and return to PrintMusic with no document open.