PrintMusic’s chord symbols are intelligent with respect to key; if you decide to change the key, the chord symbols are automatically transposed. Similarly, if you copy chord symbols to a passage in another key, they’ll be transposed when you paste them. Even PrintMusic’s guitar fretboard diagrams, which are created automatically, transpose according to the key.
Play a chord, in any register, on your synthesizer; PrintMusic places the chord symbol into the score, aligned with the baseline (controlled by the two triangles at the left side of the screen). If you don’t play the chord in root position, PrintMusic writes it with an alternate bass note, as in “Am/E.”
Press a single note within an octave above Middle C to advance the cursor to the next note/beat. Press a single note within an octave below Middle C to move to the previous note. Play a single note above/below middle C to advance forward/backward by full measures. Play middle C when an existing chord is highlighted to move the cursor up.
Occasionally, you may encounter a dialog box telling you that PrintMusic doesn’t recognize the chord you just played (or the chord it just analyzed). You can either choose an available suffix or re-enter the suffix.
Use the Caps Lock key when you know you want only uppercase chords—to enter a flat symbol with Caps Lock engaged, press shift-B (for lowercase).
If PrintMusic doesn’t recognize the suffix, a dialog box appears in which you can choose an available suffix from the chord suffix library.
If PrintMusic doesn’t recognize the suffix, a dialog box appears in which you can choose an available suffix from the chord suffix library.
To prevent chord symbols from playing back
The playback of chord symbols sustain until the end of the measure or the next chord symbol. To interrupt chord playback at any beat/note, type "N.C." (for no chord). To prevent all chord symbols from playing back, deselect Chord > Enable Chord Playback.
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