Now that you’ve put a few staccatos and dynamics in your score, try this: While pressing the Space bar, click the first measure (the shortcut for a quick playback). You’ll notice that your staccatos and breath marks actually affect the articulation of the notes in playback!
Mac users: when the Playback Controls are visible, simply pressing the spacebar will start playback.
You’ll soon discover that all of the dynamic markings (in the Expression Tool) and some of the Articulations have been defined for playback; as soon as you place them into your score, they affect the playback in a musical way.
Furthermore, you can create your own expressions and markings, and define them for tempo playback, too. Any word or shape can affect any MIDI variable when you play your score—key velocity (volume), tempo, transposition, patch, MIDI channel, pitch bend, pedal, and so on. In Tutorial 6, you’ll learn how to program your own intelligent score markings.
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