Converting Short Notes to Grace Notes |
In Composer, it is easy to add grace notes with the "point and click" method described in Adding Grace Notes. Another way to add grace notes is to enter them first as written-out notes with short durations, and then convert them to grace notes. You might also want to write out the short note performances first, before converting them to grace notes. One reason you might want to do this is so that you can precisely determine how the grace notes will be performed. However, this is usually not necessary, because when you add a grace note, you specify its duration, which in turn determines how soon it is played before the long note. For example, you might choose the combination of the and buttons for a 16th triplet member, which is one third of an eighth note. In addition, you can finely adjust the timing of grace notes using Piano Roll Notation, as described in Viewing and Editing the Timing of Grace Notes. There are several ways that you can convert written-out short notes to displayed grace notes:
To automatically detect and convert written-out short notes to displayed grace notes: In detecting grace notes, Composer uses the same analysis for the Transcribe Grace Notes command as it does if you choose the grace note transcription option when you are importing a MIDI file, recording from your MIDI keyboard, or using the Re-Transcribe command.
-- OR -- Type SHIFT+G.
-- OR -- Instead of step #2, follow the remaining steps #3 and #4.
Composer will display the Transcribe Grace Note dialog box.
To convert a written-out short note to a displayed grace note: It is suggested that you use the Transcribe Grace Notes command, as described in the previous procedure, instead of the following procedure, unless you have a good reason. The above Transcribe Grace Notes command lets you convert many grace notes at once, very quickly.
-- OR -- Type SHIFT+G.
Note that if the written-out version of the grace note borrows time from the long note that follows, then Composer will convert the written-out short note to that type of grace note, even if you choose the option for the opposite type of grace note, which borrows time from the left.
To convert a series of two or more written-out short notes to a grace note group:
-- OR -- Type "gr" for grace note borrowing from right (or "gl" for grace note borrowing from left). |