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 SongWriter 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.
Select an Ensemble and Document Style
- Title • Composer • Copyright. Enter the Title, Composer and copyright of your piece here
and SongWriter 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 SongWriter with no
document open. Click Next to continue on to the next dialog box in the Setup Wizard.
Add or Delete Instruments
- 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.
- Score Order • [Arrows]. Use the Score Order drop-down menu to reorder your instruments based on one of the available standard orchestrations. To specify a custom orchestration, click one of the instruments you have added and use the arrows () to move it up or down in the
list. (When you do so, the Score Order drop-down menu changes to Custom).
- 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 SongWriter with no document open.
Score Information
- 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 SongWriter with no document open.
Score Settings
- Specify Initial Tempo Marking. Check this box to have SongWriter 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 SongWriter 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 SongWriter folder.
- Back • Finish • Cancel. Click Back to return to the third page of the Wizard. Click Finish and
SongWriter will create your score, based on your choices and the default file. Click Cancel to
exit out of the Setup Wizard and return to SongWriter with no document open.