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Using SmartScore 3
This section is intended to give you a brief overview of ENF editor functions. Turn to "Detailed ENF Editing" for more ENF editing information.
Click the Zoom Tool in the Main Toolbar. Ctrl + Q (Cmnd + Q for Mac) will toggle between In and Out.
Click will increase the scale of your view (Zoom In), while right-click (option + click for Mac) will decrease the scale of your view (Zoom Out).
NOTE: An alternative to the "split screen" view is the "Zoom Window" view. See "Split-screen and Zoom Window Viewing" for more details.
TIP: It is possible to view several pages at once with either File > Print Preview or the View > True Scrolling function. See "View > True Scrolling".
Use the paging buttons located in the Main Toolbar or push the "Next page" / "Previous page" arrows at the lower right-hand corner of the SmartScore window.
The status bar in the lower right corner of the SmartScore window contains information about the current page being viewed such as Part Number, Page Number, Cursor Position, Page Size and Zoom View. Clicking inside any of these fields will open a control window: Go To (Part, Page, Cursor), Page Setup (Page Size) or Zoom Level (Zoom).
In SmartScore, only one staff is capable of being edited at a time. A staff becomes activated when the mouse pointer crosses into it. If Show Active Staff is checked, all other staves display as greyed out (inactive).
You may display the active staff highlighted or show all staves in black.
For additional information on navigating inside an ENF document, go to"More ENF navigating".
Many new symbols are recognized in SmartScore 3. In order to limit "false positives", we've added options that selectively narrow the set of objects to be recognized. (See "Recognition Options"). It may be necessary to remove incorrectly recognized objects in any case. We recommend this simple "sweep" method following recognition.
b. Click and drag the Select Tool to highlight a group of "false positives" that may be found between staff lines.
c. Pay attention to any false tempo and dynamic markings (e.g. f, ff, etc.) but at the same time, be sure not to select valid markings, notes, chord symbols or other objects you don't wish to remove.
d. Hit the "Delete" key to remove highlighted objects.
e. Repeat between subsequent staff lines and on remaining pages.
f. See "Inserting or Deleting Multiple Articulations".
NOTE: It is highly recommended that you become familiar with SmartScore's hand position for editing. You will find editing fast and easy once you begin working with this two-handed method:
Press the "C" key of your computer keyboard to toggle between the Insert and Change modes. Notice how this changes the appearance of the cursor. In the Insert mode, the cursor becomes the chosen object. In the Change mode, the cursor becomes an arrow with the chosen object next to it. The Change and Insert buttons in the toolbar alternate as well.
You can select any editing mode from the SmartScore Toolbar.
TIP: In areas that are particularly crowded with objects, nudge notes horizontally in Edit Shapes to make room. See Edit Shapes.
Press the "X" key of your computer keyboard to toggle between the Delete by Group and Delete Any modes.
In the Delete by Group mode, the cursor becomes an arrow with the selected object type in grey. In the Delete Any mode the cursor becomes an arrow with an "X" next to it.
Delete by Group mode deletes any object that is listed in the active Tool Palette group. Objects from other groups will not be deleted.
Delete Any mode removes any notation object that is clicked with the mouse. NOTE: This action will remove an entire chord. To remove a single note from a chord, hit the "X" then "Z" key.
b. While in the Insert mode, click above or below an existing note to Insert a new note along the stem. The new note inherits the same duration of the original note.
Press the "X" key with the Cluster Tool active and click on any note to remove it from the chord. Delete Any will erase the entire chord.
TIP: The "F1" key will reset all windows and palettes to their default "startup" positions. Use when things get messy.
To undo any edit action, hold the Ctrl and "Z" keys down (Cmnd + Z for Mac). Repeat again to undo a previous action.
All notation objects used in SmartScore can be selected from one of several Tool Palettes.
To quickly select any alternative Tool Palette, right-click (Ctrl + click for Mac) on any open Tool Palette. All possible Tool Palettes become available for selection. Notice that the "active" palette is replaced by the newly-selected palette when Recycle is the palette mode.
TIP: Quick-Select (Ctrl + Click) is probably the quickest way to select an object to Insert or Change. Hold down the Ctrl button and click on any object in the active staff line. The cursor will become that object and also inherit its attributes.
TIP: Notes can be selected from number keys. Use SHIFT for rests and Ctrl + 2 and 3 for accidentals.
While in Insert mode, select a rhythmic value and press the grace note button in the "Notes" palette. Click before any note in the active staff to insert a grace note. ENF playback will insert the grace note and truncate the duration of either the following or the previous note.
To control how grace notes play back and are written to the resulting MIDI file, go to Playback > Sound Grace Notes,
On the Beat (Accaciatura) - Plays on the beat and shortens the duration of the following note.
Before the Beat - Plays before the beat and shortens the duration of the preceding note.
Use the Select tool to highlight one or more objects for selected editing functions such as delete, vertically align multi-voice notes, split voices, flip stem directions and copy/paste. The "O" key activates this tool. Its button is found in the SmartScore toolbar.
TIP: Use the Select tool + Delete key to remove any object other than lyrics and barlines. It is especially useful for removing spurious or unwanted text or multiple objects that do not delete easily with the "X" key.
Contrapuntal voices can be viewed in color as well as in black.
To view contrapuntal voices as separate colors in an ENF file, push the Voice Visibility button in the SmartScore toolbar or go to the Options menu and select Color Mode > Voice. The initial default is Options > Color Mode > Part > Black. Voice color can be turned off or on anytime by clicking the Voice Visibility button.
Voice color is automatically determined based on several factors (number of voices, stem direction, vertical alignment, etc.) You can override voice colors manually. Changing voice color also changes its voice assignment and, possibly, changes voice assignments of other notes in a given measure.
NOTE: DO NOT override voice colors until a measure is entirely edited. Unusual color combinations usually correct themeselves.
b. Locate the note or rest in a voice you wish to change and click on it.
c. Color and voice assignment will update as will any other voices within the same measure, e.g. other notes in the same vertical event.
For more about part and voice colors, see "Working with Voices and Colors" on page 142. See also "Vertical Alignment and offset voices" on page 63.
Error Check will search each measure looking for voicelines that are either incomplete or have total durations in excess of the default time signature
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a. Press Ctrl +E Win / Cmnd + E Mac. Or select Edit > Error Check. The first measure found with a discrepancy will highlight in grey. The Error Check window will suggest whether there are too many or too few note values in a particular voice in a given measure.
NOTE: It may be necessary to click twice in the ENF display to change "cursor focus" from the Error Check window to ENF display.
NOTE: Very often publishers will leave one voiceline incomplete when there are two or more voices within a measure (to avoid cluttering a measure with rests). SmartScore may successfully cope with such a situation provided voices are vertically aligned.
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To move objects horizontally, activate Edit Shapes from the Text and Controllers Toolbar. See "Edit Shapes".
To create beam groups, first select a flagged note value and the "right beam" option from the "Notes" palette. Toggle the "C" key to enter Insert mode. Multiple clicks inside a staff will form beamed groups of two notes. Deleting an end beam note will cause adjacent beamed groups to connect. To join multiple 2-beam groups into larger groups, use the Select tool ("O" key) and then hit the "B" key. All selected beam groups will reform.
To insert an inside beamed note, be sure you are in the Insert mode. Select the proper note value from the "Notes" palette and then push the "Middle Beam" button. Position the cursor inside a beam and click.
To transform a group of flagged notes into a beamed group, use the Select tool ("O" key) to highlight any group of flagged notes adjacent to each other. Hit the "B" key to join the notes into a beamed group.
Any number of flagged or beamed notes may be reformed into a new multiple group by first selecting a group of adjacent flagged or beamed notes using the Select tool. Then hitting the "B" key.
Using any "Beam" tool, you can quickly insert and edit a series of beamed groups.
With any beam tool selected, clicking from left-to-right, will create 2-note beamed sets.
With "middle" or "right beam" selected, clicking to the left of an existing beamed group will insert a note to the beginning of that group.
The default stem direction of an inserted note is determined by its vertical position on the staff. When your cursor crosses the middle staffline, the direction of the stem automatically switches. Default stem directions: Up above the middle staff line; Down below the middle staff line.
With a stemmed note selected, toggle the "S" key to change its default stem direction. Another method is to insert the note with a right-click (option + click for Mac). This will reverse the default stem direction of the note as it is displayed by the cursor.
Select the "D" key, dot or double dot from the "Notes" or "Rests" palette. Click on any notehead to attach a dot of prolongation.
To Delete a dot of prolongation, press the "D" key again and click on the notehead.
While in the Insert mode, select a
triplet ("T" key) from the "Rhythmic Groups" palette or select Legato from the "Articulations" palette.
b. Click and drag up to insert the tuplet or legato below the notes to be selected.
c. Press the "X" key and click on the tuplet or legato to delete it.
Choose the value required from the "Rhythmic Groups" palette. Click and drag the mouse pointer to select a tuplet group within another tuplet. A bracket will drop identifying the nested tuplet.
Other than the common triplet, quintuplet, etc. it may be necessary to create a unique rhythmic group. Divisions = the number of equally divided notes. Value = total duration equal to one undivided note times the number selected. E.g. a quarter-note triplet defaults as follows: Divisions = 3 / Value = 2. (Total duration of 2 quarter notes divided equally into three.)
Ties connect contiguous notes of the same pitch causing the first note to sound for the duration of both notes. Ties are not the same as slurs.
b. Click on the notehead of the first note of a tied pair to insert the tie with a downward arc.
c. Right-click (option + click for Mac) to insert a tie with upward arc.
d. To delete a tie, hit the "X" key and click the first note of the pair to delete. You can also use the Select tool and Delete key to delete ties.
NOTE: A tie across a system (tie at end of line) automatically creates a "linked tie" marking at the end of the source system as well as to its partner at beginning of the next system.
While in the Insert mode, hit the "I" key (or select any barline from the "Barlines & Repeats" palette).
b. In Change mode, click on a barline to change to selected barline.
c. Press the "X" key and click on the barline to delete it.
Transposing all or part of a score can be accomplished in one of several ways. The most common is "transpose globally by key", e.g. change an entire song from the key of E-Flat to the key of C.
Other transposition methods such as transpose-by-clef, transpose within a selected range and transpose-notes-only (either harmonically or enharmonic ally) are all possible. For information on these additional transposition methods turn to "Transposition".
b. The "source" key signature will appear in the main window along with its signature name listed in both major and relative minor keys.
c. Choose to transpose either by Key or by Clef or by Pitch.
d. Use the scroller to select a new key signature if by Key or a new clef sign if by Clef.
e. With Closest selected, SmartScore will transpose to the target key, up or down, with the least number of intervals. Choose Up or Down if you wish to make your own choice. Push OK.
a. Push the Score button on the Navigator or select New > New ENF under the File menu (Ctrl + N (Win) / Cmnd + N (Mac)).
b. Type in a Title for the new score.
c. Add the Composer's name for the first page score header.
d. Press the Page Setup button to change the basic page layout of your score. See "File > Page Setup" for details.
SmartScore has 15 preset templates including solo instrument, piano, SA / TB score, duet and custom.
b. Once the score is open, use palettes to select objects and place them in the score in Insert mode.
c. Remember to select File > Save As in order to save the new ENF file with a name you give to it.
TIP: To create a new page once you have reached the bottom of an ENF page, place your cursor in the last system and hold down the CTRL button (this "holds" the active system). Select Edit > System > Insert Below. A new page will be created and the new system will be added to it. Repeat as necessary to create as many new systems and pages as you require.
An alternative to entering notes in by hand is to record MIDI-based performances using a MIDI keyboard or some other MIDI instrument. For more about this, see "MIDI Recording".
An alternative to Real Time Recording is Step Time Recording. Step Time Recording is done in MIDI and can be a very fast method of entering in notes (when you can't scan it in of course!). For more, turn to "Step Time Recording".
To Copy an area of an ENF file for pasting into another application (e.g Microsoft Word®, Adobe Photoshop®, etc.),
b. Right-click (option + click for Mac) and drag to select desired region in the ENF pane.
c. Hit (Ctrl +C / Cmnd+C) or Edit > Copy to copy selected region to the clipboard as a bitmap image.
NOTE: Before copying to clipboard, uncheck View > Show Active Staff, otherwise, you may not capture the entire view.
TIP: Use this feature to take "snapshots" of musical snippets and Paste into word processors or other non-music programs.
You can save the current ENF file at any time by hitting the Save button in the Main toolbar, by hitting Ctrl + S (Cmnd + S for Mac) or by selecting File > Save. If Options > Auto-Save is on, incremental saving becomes automatic. For more on Auto-Save, turn to "Options > Auto Save". A rule of thumb for all files, especially big ones, is "Be safe. Save often."
You can save SmartScore files in several different file formats such as MIDI, Finale®, NIFF for Sibelius®, or standard NIFF files.
.MID files will import playback data into most other music software programs with no page formatting. All graphical information about note position, stem direction, voices, etc. are lost. MIDI is to music what ASCII is to text.
.FIN files will import SmartScore pages into Finale 2000c or better with graphical information and page layout intact. Use the File > Import selection in Finale to open a SmartScore .FIN file.
SmartScore saves several flavors of .NIF files: NIFF for Lime, NIFF for Sibelius and raw NIFF files; one conforming to the NIFF (Notation Interchange File Format) Specification 6a as published by the NIFF steering committee in 1998 and one to the 6b update. NIFF files contain both graphical and playback information and can be used as a means of exchanging music notation and MIDI data between software programs that support the format.
b. In the Filetype/Format window, choose a format to save the active SmartScore file: MIDI Type 1 (Multiple Track / Multiple Channel), MIDI Type 0 (Single Track / Multiple Channel), FINALE or NIFF for Lime, NIFF for Sibelius, NIFF 6a or 6b.
c. Browse to another directory and change the name if desired.
d. Press OK. The file will be saved in the last directory used with the "Save As" command. The extension is automatically added.
NOTE: When saving ENF to MIDI files, a dialog box will open to explain that articulations such as slurs, staccatos and tenutos will create MIDI events that are not quantized. You will be given a choice to save the MIDI files with articulations removed or kept. For the purpose of playback only, it is recommended that articulations be kept. If t is recommended that articulations be removed if MIDI files are to be imported into other notation-based programs.
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To Zoom in and out,
To attach note to existing note stem (Chord-building) Tool,
To Delete a single note from a chord cluster, 
Select desired voice number (and color) from 
Pitch shift
User-defined Tuplet
While in the 
Barlines
Real Time Recording