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SmartScore files (or ENF files for Extended Notation Format) are fully editable. This section describes the most commonly-used ENF editing features. For information on advanced editing techniques such as part extraction, optimized scores, managing systems, applying or changing instrument templates, reformatting, respacing, page setup and part linking, turn to "Detailed ENF Editing". Many editing and playback default settings are accessible in either Document Preferences or Program Preferences under the Edit menu. See "Preferences" for details.
Only one staff can be edited at a time. Positioning your mouse over a staff will cause it to highlight black. Objects associated with the staff (including text and lyrics) can then be edited. You can choose to highlight just the active staff or to all staves in black. But only the staff with the cursor inside is active.
Following Recognition, the upper pane (in yellow) displays the scanned image associated with the ENF file (in white). The View > Split tool allows for resizing the horizontal split-pane.
Scores with multiple pages can be displayed in the workspace in several different ways: Vertical, Horizontal or, if binding is required, by Facing Pages. A score can also display in one continuous Long View.
It is possible to display your score in one, long continuous system.
Select Long View page view button at bottom right of Status Bar. Otherwise, select Show Long View in the View menu.
To return to normal page layout, select one of page view buttons in the Status Bar or uncheck Show Long View in the View menu.
NOTE: Whenever the ENF and TIFF view panes loose synchronization, e.g. in Long View mode or after score reformatting, the TIFF display pane will close and a floating "Scan View" window will appear instead. The region shown in the scan window is relative to cursor position in ENF.
Left 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). Ctrl + scroll wheel works as well.
For additional information on navigating inside an ENF document, go to "More ENF navigating".
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).
NOTE: It is recommended that you use the "left-hand-on-keyboard" technique as shown below. You will find editing fast and easy once you begin working with this "Quick Keys" method:
Click into an active staff. Hold down the "Shift" key, click on control point in the center of the notehead. Drag the note head up or down to shift its vertical position in the staff.
Musical symbols can be selected from one of several floating tool palettes normally positioned on the left side of the screen. Symbols with multiple values are grouped inside a single "master' button identified with a small arrow. By holding down any button containing an arrow, the entire set of selectable symbols will expand to the right.
You can select any symbol from the active ENF display without having to search inside a palette. Hold the Ctrl key down and click on any object in the active staff. The cursor will inherit that object's properties.
NOTE: Press the "F2" to open Notes palette or "R" key for the Rests palette. "Shift + "R" will select an eighth rest.
Quick-select (Ctrl+click) is usually the easiest way to select objects for editing. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on any nearby object. The cursor will become that object and inherit its attributes. Of course, objects are also found in palettes.
d. Select any note or rest from either of the expanding Notes or Rests buttons located "Notes" palette.
f. The cursor will display the selected symbol along with a grey dot which indicates the line or space on the staff. Click to insert.
Refer to "Tool Palettes" or to the "" for details on other SmartScore tool palettes.
The "C" key on your computer keyboard activates Insert/Change mode
as does the Insert button on the Main Toolbar. Insert/Change mode is automatically activated when a symbol is selected from a palette. Inserting a symbol and changing an existing symbol is essentially the same... point and click.NOTE: When a note highlights light blue, a new note will be inserted in another voice at the same vertical event). (See "Working with Contrapuntal Voices" for more information about vertical events.
In Insert mode, the default stem direction of a note is determined by its position on the staff. Stem direction automatically switches when your cursor crosses the middle staffline.
To override the stem direction as displayed by your cursor, insert any note with a right-click (option + click for Mac). This will cause the note to insert with the opposite stem direction as shown.
a. In Insert mode, right-click (option + click for Mac) on any yellow-highlighted notehead. The stem direction will change.
Objects must first be selected before being deleted. The 2 methods are:
"Click Delete" method: Quick-select (Ctrl+click) a symbol. Hit the "X" key. Click on any similar object to delete it.
NOTE:
You will be able to delete any object belonging to the selected symbol class. e.g. all notes will delete when a note of any duration is selected. The last selected object always appears when "X" key is hit.
"Delete Group" method: Use the Select tool ("O" key) and drag the selector box over one or more objects highlighting them in yellow. Release the mouse. Selected objects will appear grey-green. Hitting the "Delete" key will remove all selected objects.
Click the Undo or Redo button to reverse the last editing action. Or hold the Ctrl down and hit the "Z" key (Cmnd + Z for Mac).
To select one or more actions to be reversed, click the small arrow to the right of the Undo or Redo buttons. Drag to select multiple actions. Push "Undo Actions" or "Redo Actions".
TIP: The
Reset Workspace button (or F1 key) will reset all windows and palettes to their default "startup" positions. It's useful if your workspace gets messy.
Select an accidental from the "Notes" palette. Toggle the "C" key until a white arrow appears and click on a notehead to change.
Quick-select (Ctrl + click) any accidental, press the "X" key and click on a notehead to remove its associated accidental.
A courtesy accidental is bounded by parentheses and acts as a reminder that a note has an accidental.
Measures highlighted in a reddish color indicate that one or more rhythmic errors has been located in a voicelines.
For neatness, many scores intentionally truncate second and third voicelines. Normally, truncated voices will not cause playback problems provided notes on the same beat are vertically aligned.
Pickup measures and measures split between systems can be made to play back without pauses very easily (see "Pickup and split measures"). The red highlight color used to flag error measures can turned off by unchecking "Show Error Measures under the View menu.
Select the "D" key, dot or double dot from the "Notes" or "Rests" palette. Click on any notehead to attach a dot of prolongation.
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.
d. To delete a tie, hit the "X" key with a tie showing on the cursor and click the first note of the pair to delete.
In Insert mode, additional noteheads can be added to an existing note stem simply by clicking above or below an existing note provided the selected note value (displayed by the cursor) is the same as the existing note stem. Position the cursor on the correct line or space and when the note highlights yellow, click to insert.
To add a notehead to any existing note stem (regardless of what is shown on your cursor), hit the "Z" key ("Cluster tool"). When the existing note highlights yellow, click to insert new notehead.
Select Cluster tool from the Notes palette ("Z" key). Then hit the "X" key Clicking on any notehead in a cluster will remove a single notehead. The Delete cluster tool also works to delete single-headed notes.
NOTE: Always use the Cluster tool to remove single note heads. The single greyed note and arrow will delete entire note cluster.
Hit the "C" key (or click on the Insert button for Insert mode) and select a flagged note from the "Notes" palette. Then choose a beam direction from the "Beams" palette or the "A" key on your computer keyboard. If a similar beam note is nearby, Ctrl + click on it to select it.
To form a beamed group, insert the selected beamed note by clicking into a staff (not adjacent to another beam group). Repeated clicks will form successive 2-note beam groups when "left" or "right" beam direction is selected. One continuous beam group will be created when the "middle-beam" is selected. Auto-Beam can be used, but it may also cause re-coupling of other beams in the measure. See "Auto-Beaming" for more details.
Inserting a "right" or "middle" beam to the left of an existing beam group will cause that note to attach itself to the beam on its right. Likewise "left" and "middle" beams will attach to the right of an existing beam. Clicking inside an existing beam group with the "middle" beam selected will insert a beam note inside the beamed group.
Clicking on an yellow-highlighted beamed note will change its note value and/or beam direction as indicated by the cursor.
To delete a beamed note, Quick-Select it, hit the "X" key and clicking again to remove it. Deleting an end beam will cause the beam to join to any adjacent beamed groups.
Use the Select tool ("O" key) and highlight any number of adjacent flagged notes. Hit the "B" key to join the notes into a single beamed group. The "B" key will also join two or more adjacent beam groups that are selected.
While in the Insert mode, hit the "I" key (or select any barline from the "Barlines & Repeats" palette).
NOTE: Deleting a barline at the end or beginning of a system will cause the proceeding measure to roll to the next system. A notice warning of this effect will open whenever the last bar of a system is deleted.
The Properties tool is found in the SmartScore toolbar. Certain playback and display properties of most symbols can be edited by clicking with the Properties tool. Changes can be applied to all similar symbols in the score and even to all identical symbols created in future files.Other symbol properties directly affect playback. To find out about editing those symbols, see "Playback Properties".
Click the yellow staff properties marker while the Properties Tool is activated. Editable properties include:
Part Name (Directly linked to Part Name in System Manager (Ctrl + M)). Part Names are created in Instrument Templates.
Staff line visibility (View or hide active staff line. NOTE: Turning off visibility may remove permanently remove symbols)
Certain staff functions such as staff spacing, bracketing and part linking (for linking parts with expanded or collapsed systems) can be accessed by right-clicking (alt / option + click for Mac) in any staff line with the Properties tool active.
For detailed description of these commands, see "Globally applying line, staff and system spacing", "Bracketing", "System Manager", "Re-linking parts".
With the Properties tool selected, click on the barline preceding the measure of interest. For details on controls, see "Barline Properties".
With Properties tool selected, click on any note head. Here you can change note values, dots and even the appearance of the notehead.
Refer to "Playback Properties" for details on Note Properties and other playback properties including:
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 are all possible. To transpose the key of an entire score,
b. The "source" key signature will appear in the main window with its signature name listed in both major and relative minor keys.
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.
For information on additional transposition methods turn to "Transposition".
If your score was scanned, ENF pages will probably not be centered. Page Setup provides various tools for controlling print layout. The simplest way to center music on each page is to select the Fit to Page layout option.
NOTE: Other document layouts can be applied in Page Setup. For example, you may want to have alternating left/right margins for bound scores. To explore other printing layout option, see "Selecting and creating custom document layouts".
To copy an onscreen region for pasting into another application (e.g Microsoft Word®, Adobe Photoshop®, etc.),
c. Select Edit > Copy (Ctrl +C / Cmnd+C) to copy selected (highlighted) region to the clipboard as a bitmap image.
TIP: Use this feature to take "snapshots" of musical snippets and Paste into word processors or other non-music programs.
SmartScore isn't only about scanning. It is also a full-featured scorewriter as well. When creating a new score from scratch, certain defaults will turn on such as auto-beaming and auto-spacing.
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Push the Score button on the Navigator or select New > New ENF under the File menu (Ctrl + N (Win) / Cmnd + N (Mac)).
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 2-page templates including solo instrument, piano, duet, common vocal and orchestral scores and a custom setup.
b. Or, select "Add Empty Page" from the System Options menu by right-clicking on any system with Properties tool active.
With the Properties tool active, right-click (alt for Mac) into each system of the page you wish to delete. Select "System > Remove" in the System Options menu. Repeat as necessary.
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".
You can save the current ENF file at any time by pushing the Save button in the Main toolbar or by hitting Ctrl + S (Cmnd + S for Mac).a. In the File > Save As (Filetype/Format) pull-down menu, choose one of the following formats to save the ENF score to:
Music
XML (.XML) MusicXML has quickly become the most widely used file format for the exchange of music notation files between scorewriters. Most well-known notation scorewriting programs now support importing and exporting MusicXML files including Sibelius®, Finale®, Notion®, Personal Composer® and others.
.FIN
files will import SmartScore pages into Finale® 2000 or better with graphical information and page layout intact. Use the File > Import selection in Finale to open a SmartScore .FIN file.
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