Notation Musician 3 User Guide

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• Introduction
  • What's New in Version 3
  • Getting Started
    • About the Trial Version of Notation Musician
    • Using Helps Provided in the Documentation and Software
    • Printing This Documentation
    • Installing, Backing up, and Reinstalling Notation Musician
    • Finding and Starting Notation Musician on Your System
    • Setting up Your Default MIDI Playback Device
    • Getting Free Software Updates to Musician
    • Uninstalling Notation Musician
    • Transferring Your Musician License to a Different Machine
    • How to Buy Notation Musician
  • The Purpose of Notation Musician
    • Preparing and Printing Sheet Music from the Internet
    • Studying and Enjoying Music
    • Practicing Music
    • Rearranging Music for Your Particular Instrument
  • Comparison Between Notation Composer and Notation Musician
  • Quick Start Tutorial
    • Tutorial: Opening a File on Your System
    • Tutorial: Playing the Song
    • Tutorial: Using a Playlist of Multiple Songs
    • Tutorial: Correcting the Notes and Accidentals
    • Tutorial: Adding Lyrics
    • Tutorial: Saving Your Work in a File
    • Tutorial: Working with Parts
    • Tutorial: Adding Annotations
• Opening, Transcribing, Printing, Playing, and Saving Songs
  • Music File Formats That You Can Use in Musician
  • Opening a MIDI or Karaoke File Already on Your System
  • Opening Multiple Files at Once
  • Associating Notation Musician with Compatible Filetypes
  • Searching for and Downloading Song Files from the Internet
    • Using Musician's Internet Browsing Window
    • Specifying the Initial Web Page for Browsing
  • Transcribing MIDI Files and Recordings to Notation
    • Transcription Options
    • Re-Transcribing a MIDI File or Recording
  • Creating Your Own Song Templates
  • Editing the Song Title and Author Information
  • Saving Your Work in a Notation .not
  • Exporting Your Work in Other File Formats
  • Sharing Your Music With Others so They Can View, Play, and Print Your Songs
  • Backing Up Your Work with Automatic Backup
  • Opening a Notation .not File
  • Viewing Multiple Song Files at a Time
  • Printing the Score
  • Playing the Song
    • Playback Location and Staff Focus Markers
    • Starting and Stopping Playback
    • Fast Forwarding
    • Using Staff Setup To Change Instruments and Settings
    • Setting Up the Metronome
    • Jumping to or Previewing Another Location in the Song During Playback
    • Setting the Focus on a Staff During Playback
    • Anticipating Page Turns
    • Playing or Ignoring Repeats and Endings
    • Highlighting Active Notes and Lyrics
    • Turning Off Stuck Notes
    • Viewing and Adjusting the Tempo
    • Controlling the Overall Volume Level
    • Muting and Soloing Staves
    • Adjusting the Volume Level of Selected Staves During Playback
  • Using Playlists (Jukebox)
    • Organizing Songs in a Playlist
    • Playing Songs in a Playlist
    • Moving Playlists
  • Practicing Music with Accompaniment
    • Playing Along with Your MIDI Instrument
    • Setting up Practice Loops
    • Starting and Stopping a Practice Session
    • Advancing to the Next (or Previous) Rehearsal Mark
    • Practicing a Part While Singing or Playing a non-MIDI Instrument
    • Practicing a Part Using Your MIDI Keyboard or MIDI Instrument
    • Controlling Notation Musician from Your Music Keyboard
• Navigating through Musician and the Score
  • Parts of the Musician Window
    • Customizing Colors in Musician
    • Showing and Hiding Parts of the Musician Window
    • Menus (But Not Too Much)
    • Toolbar
      • Song Time
      • Playback and Paging Buttons
      • Metronome Button
      • Tempo and Volume Controls
      • Window and Page View Buttons
      • Mouse Mode Buttons:  Select and Add
      • Undo and Redo Buttons
      • Zoom-In and Zoom-Out Buttons
  • Palettes
  • Keyboard Commands
  • Executing Commands from Your MIDI Keyboard
  • Window View and Page View
  • Staff Controls
    • Play, Mute or Solo Staff
    • Instrument Sound Selection
    • Select Staff
  • Scrolling, Resizing and Zooming the Window
    • Scrolling the Window
    • Automatic Scrolling During Playback
    • Resizing the Window
    • Zooming the Window
  • Navigating through Pages of the Score
    • Viewing a Range of Measures
    • First Page, Next Page, Previous Page, and Last Page
    • Go to a Measure or Page
    • Go to a Rehearsal Mark
• Editing Staves and Formatting Parts
  • Understanding Tracks, Staves, and Parts
  • Editing Staves
    • Adding New Staves
    • Deleting Staves
    • Editing Instrument (Staff) Names
    • Changing the Instrument Sound of a Staff
    • Assigning MIDI Channels
    • Cloning a Staff
    • Merging Staves
    • Adjusting Per-Staff Volume Level and Left-to-Right Pan
    • Transposing a Staff
    • Splitting Staves
      • Splitting a Staff into Right- and Left-Hand Staves
      • Splitting the Drum Staff into Individual Drum Staves
      • Splitting a Staff into Melody and Accompaniment
    • Splitting Double-Played Notes from Solo Instrument
    • Rearranging the Order of Staves
    • Shifting Notes Between Staves
  • Preparing Parts
    • Automatically Creating Parts
    • Creating a New Part
    • Selecting a Part
    • Renaming a Part
    • Changing Which Staves Are Displayed in a Part
    • Deleting a Part
    • Printing Parts
    • Wizard for Preparing Part
      • Sing-Along Part
      • Easy Notes Part
      • Fake Book Lead Sheet Part
      • Chord Chart
      • Customized Part
    • Preparing Parts for Piano, Voirce, Drums, and Guitar
      • Preparing a Keyboard Part
      • Preparing a Piano Reduction of a Score
      • Preparing a Vocal Part
      • Preparing a Drum Part
      • Preparing a Guitar Part
  • Formatting Parts
    • Page Setup
    • Adding Page Title, Headers and Footers
    • Overall Font Size
    • Horizontal and Vertical Spacing
    • Font Type and Size for Types of Text
    • Showing and Hiding Types of Music Annotations
    • Showing and Hiding Instrument Names
    • Hiding Empty Staves
    • Displaying Pitch Name (Easy Note) Letters in Noteheads
    • Formatting a Part Using a Template
    • Copying the Format of a Part to Other Parts
  • Laying out Pages of a Part
    • Tip: Postpone Doing Page Layout
    • Changing Font Size in Layout View
    • Changing Horizontal Spacing in Layout View
    • Specifying the Number of Bars Per Line
    • Forcing a Page Break or System Break
    • Moving a Measure to the Previous System
    • Moving a System to the Previous Page
    • Moving Barlines Within a System
    • Changing Vertical Spacing Between Staves and Systems
    • Freezing Line Breaks and Page Breaks for Entire Part
    • Restoring Default Pagination
• Editing the Music Notation
  • Basic Editing Procedures
    • General Method for Adding, Changing, and Deleting Objects
    • Adding Objects Using Palettes
    • Selecting One or More Objects Before Editing Them
    • Changing Object Properties Using Palettes
    • Selecting and Editing Regions of a Score
    • Using the Clipboard
      • Clearing a Region of the Score
    • Undoing Editing Operations
    • Recovering Interrupted Song File Editing
  • Editing Measures
    • Deleting Measures
    • Splitting Measures
    • Joining Measures
    • Creating Upbeat Measures
    • Shifting Barlines
    • Editing Measure Numbers
  • Adding Notes
  • Selecting, Editing and Deleting Notes
    • Alternative Methods for Selecting Notes
    • Selecting Notes and Advancing to the Next or Previous Note
    • Automatically Playing Notes When Selected
    • Deleting Notes
    • Removing Silent Notes
    • Editing Note Pitch
    • 8va Octaves
    • Editing Note Accidental (Sharp, Flat, etc.)
    • Editing the Rhythms of Notes
      • Editing Note Location (Attack)
      • Editing Note Duration
      • Editing Triplets and Quintuplets
      • Editing Swing Notation
      • Combining Separate Notes into Chords
    • Editing Accent Marks
    • Editing Beams
    • Editing Ties
    • Editing the Note Voice (Stem Direction)
    • Editing Drum Notes
    • Editing Notehead Shape
  • Transposing Notes
    • Transposing Actual Pitches
    • Transposing to the Key of an Instrument
  • Doubling and Scaling Note Durations
  • Editing Rests
    • Deleting Rests to Extend the Duration of Previous Notes
    • Changing the Voice of a Rest
    • Eliminating Small Rests
    • Using Multiple Measure Rests
  • Editing Grace Notes
    • Understanding the Two Types of Grace Notes
    • Viewing Grace Notes as Written-Out Notes
    • Editing the Slash on Grace Note Stems
    • Converting Short Notes to Grace Notes
    • Reverting Grace Notes to Written-Out Notes
  • Editing Ornaments
    • Adding Ornaments
    • Converting Written-Out Performances to Ornaments
    • Reverting Ornaments to Written-Out Notes
    • Deleting an Ornament
    • Viewing and Editing the Written-Out Performance of Ornaments
    • Editing and Transcribing Trills
    • Editing Turns
    • Editing Mordents
    • Editing Arpeggios
    • Editing and Transcribing Tremolos
  • Editing Staff Symbols
    • Brackets and Braces
    • Clefs
    • Key Signatures
    • Meters (Time Signatures)
    • Barlines
    • Repetition Marks
      • Barline Repeat Marks
      • Endings
      • D.S. and Other Go-To Marks
      • Repeat Instructions for Performances
  • Editing Music Annotations
    • Accents and Articulations
    • Dynamic Marks
    • Hairpin Crescendo Marks
    • Special Symbols
    • Slurs (Phrase Marks)
      • Adding Slurs
      • Deleting a Slur
      • Changing the Shape and Extent of a Slur
    • Lines and Glissandos
      • Adding Lines and Glissandos
      • Deleting a Line Or Glissando
      • Changing the Extent or Angle of a Line or Glissando
    • Sustain Pedal Marks
• Editing Types of Text
  • General Procedures for Editing Text
    • Adding Text
    • Editing Text
    • Deleting Text
    • Selecting Font Type, Size, and Properties
    • Moving a Text Object
    • Copying and Pasting Text
    • Showing and Hiding Types of Text
    • Adding International Characters in Text
  • Lyrics
    • Adding and Editing Lyrics
    • Advancing to the Next (or Previous) Lyric
    • Adding and Editing Multiple Verses
    • Lyric Hyphen and Melisma Characters
    • Copying and Pasting Lyrics
    • Correcting the Misalignment of Lyrics with Notes
    • Editing Lyrics Using an External Text Editor
    • Working with Karaoke (.kar) Files
    • Hiding Lyrics
  • Free Text
    • Adding and Editing Free Text
    • Mixing Music Symbols and Normal Text
    • Vertically Aligning Free Text
  • Page Text
    • Adding and Editing Page Text
    • Determining What Pages Show the Page Text
    • Aligning Page Text
    • Standard Page Text Such as Page Number
    • Specifying Page Text in Templates
  • Chord Names
    • Adding and Editing Chord Names
    • Analyzing (Transcribing) Chord Names
    • Advancing to the Next (or Previous) Beat While Editing Chord Names
    • Shifting Chord Names to the Right or Left
    • Formatting Chord Names
    • Temporarily Hiding or Permanently Removing Chord Names
    • Transposing Chord Names
  • Rehearsal Marks
    • Adding and Editing Rehearsal Marks
    • Using Rehearsal Marks as Editing Bookmarks
    • Using Rehearsal Marks for Practicing Music
• Configuring Your Soundcard and MIDI Equipment
  • Notation Software Internal Synthesizer
  • Quick MIDI Device Setup
  • What To Do If You Hear Static or Crackling
  • What To Do If You Do Not Hear Any Sound
  • What To Do If Play-Along Does Not Work
  • Procedures for Common MIDI Configuration Tasks
    • Assigning Device Names That Make Better Sense to You
    • Changing the Default Playback Device
    • Installing a USB or MIDI Cable Between Your Soundcard and Keyboard
    • Adding a New MIDI Keyboard to Your Configuration
    • Deciding Whether or Not Your Keyboard Should Directly Produce Sound
  • Procedures for Advanced MIDI Configuration Tasks
    • Installing a Software Synthesizer
    • Preparing Bank, Patch, and Drum Note Names for a MIDI Device
      • Adjusting for the Delay of Some MIDI Output Devices
    • Configuring a New External MIDI Output Device
    • How to Handle Devices Connected with MIDI Thru Cables
    • How to Save Effort if You Rearrange Your MIDI Equipment Often
  • Using the MIDI Device Configuration Window
    • Understanding the Details of the MIDI Device Configuration Window
      • Understanding Ports and Devices in the MIDI Device Configuration Window
      • Common MIDI Device Configurations
      • Recording Indicator in the MIDI Device Configuration Window
      • Menus in the MIDI Device Configuration Window
    • Testing Playback and Recording Devices
    • Managing MIDI Ports
      • Connecting and Disconnecting Devices from an External Port
      • Specifying Whether a Port Is Internal or External
    • Managing MIDI Devices
      • Importing from a MIDI Device Description (.mdd) File
      • Importing from a Cakewalk Instrument Description (.ins) File
      • Adding an External Device
      • Removing a Device
      • Renaming a Device
      • Specifying Properties of a Device
      • Specifying the Default MIDI Output Device
      • Specifying a General MIDI (GM) Device
      • Tuning a Device to Specific MIDI Channels
      • Exporting to a MIDI Device Description (.mdd) File
    • Assigning Bank, Patch, and Drum Note Names to a MIDI Device
      • Assigning a Bank to a MIDI Device
      • Removing a Bank from a MIDI Device
      • Assigning Patch Names for a MIDI Device or Bank of a Device
      • Managing Drum Note Lists
    • Managing Alternative MIDI Device Configurations
      • Saving a Configuration
      • Selecting a Configuration
      • Creating a New Configuration
      • Re-Initializing a Configuration
      • Cloning a Configuration
      • Renaming a Configuration
      • Deleting a Configuration
      • Restoring A Configuration
• Appendices
  • Appendix A: Notation Musician Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Appendix B: What is MIDI?
  • Appendix C: Technical Support
  • Appendix D: Notation Musician License Agreement
  • Appendix E: 3rd Party Libraries and Acknowledgements

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