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The Piano roll is a way of displaying staves.
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Note : This
kind of staff is only available in Harmony
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TERMINOLOGY
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Music is dislayed as a grid.
Horizontal axis defines the time, vertical axis
the note pitch. The more treble note, the higher on the grid.
Each time is divided into several cell.
Each note is displayed as a colored
rectangle spanning one or more cells. This sets the
start and end time position of the note.
The highest and lowest note pitches define the staff ambitus.
There can be several "layers" on top of each other, called voices. Voices are
differentiated from each other by their color.
Each voice is edited independently and can be
related with a different instrument.
The active voice can be changed, the others are
displayed in gray and cannot be changed.
The boxes can be selected individually, continuously
(time interval) or discontinuously.
HOW TO GET A PIANO ROLL STAFF? ?
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By changing the type of an existing staff
(Staves> Change staff type)
By adding a staff of this type in the document
(Staves> Add staff)
By creating a document of this type (File> New)
By converting an entire document. (Score>
Action> Piano Roll mode) Note that some layout
information is lost during this operation.
GENERALITY
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A piano roll staff can coexist with any of the
other types of staves.
There can be as many piano roll staves and as many
different voices in a single piano roll staff as you
want.
Scroll mode is preferred for editing because it best fits the peculiarities of this type of staff.
It is recommended to set the left and right margins to zero to avoid gaps between
measures. This spacing will nevertheless be
compulsory if you mix piano roll and other types of
staves in the same document.
Sung lyrics can be related with the piano roll.
A chord line can be related with the piano roll.
A guitar, bass, harmonica, accordion, etc.
tablature, priority or not, can be related with the
piano roll.
The tuning grid and therefore the accompaniments
take the piano roll notes into account.
It is compatible with MyrWeb export and printing.
THE GRID
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Adding a note outside the grid adapts the ambitus (view area).
Use the resize handles (red squares) to manually
change the grid ambitus.
The repeat, start and end music bars are managed.
The repeat symbol of the previous measure is allowed
as well as the repeat symbol of the two previous
measures.
The parts, jumps and targets are managed.
MEANING OF NOTES COLOR
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If a note is selected individually, it is displayed
in the color of the selection, defined in general
preferences, "Screen" tab
Otherwise, if a note has been colored in a
particular way it is displayed in that color.
Otherwise, it is displayed in the color of the
symbols in its staff or in gray if the voice is not
active.
VIRTUAL KEYBOARD
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Note pitches are displayed on a vertical virtual
keyboard to the left of the staff.
This keyboard is insensitive to the transposition of
the associated instrument. Played notes are
displayed on the virtual keyboard. A click on the virtual keyboard plays the note.
GLOBAL VISION
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In scroll mode, the "Blueprint" tool palette displays
the entire staff in a reduced fashion and allows you
to move quickly through the staff.
ATTACHED PALETTE
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For each of the piano roll staves, on the left of
the virtual keyboard you see a specific area with
two parts: on the left the tools and on the right
the voices. These are quick access to the most used
commands. This palette can be automatically hidden
when music is playing.
Tools are :
- Add
tool to add notes, divide them, merge them
- Select tool to select notes by area or individually
- Erase tool to erase notes
- Injection tool, for example to inject effects into
an existing cell
- Grace tool to
add small notes to cells
- Try tool
to play the notes individually
- Velocities tool to edit the velocities (power) of notes
- Magnifier tool to change the display scale
- Slide tool to define a slide between two notes. Click
on the start note then on the end note. By default
the slide is continuous. Right click the slide to
configure it.
- Time division tool to define in how many cells to display per beat. You can also use the key tool.
- Cutter tool to cut one or more notes in half.
- Glue tool to solder the notes.
- Alignment mode which defines whether precise
positioning is active or not.
- Adding
a voice. A new instrument is created and associated
with the voice. A color and a voice name are
assigned automatically.
- Activate all voices
Then, each voice is represented by a colored dot.
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A click activates the voice in the grid.
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A right click opens the contextual menu for voice
settings.
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A long click allows you to move the voice to change
its position in the voice list.
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A double click edits the associated instrument.
EDIT MODE (pencil)
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A click on an empty cell adds a note. The duration is defined in the note duration palette (dots
and double dots are taken into account). If no
duration is defined, this will be the duration of
the last handled event.
When adding a note, holding down the button extends
that note to the right.
- A click outside a note with the shift key
pressed opens the contextual menu for setting the
grid:
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Select the current voice, the
color of the voice is displayed via a dot
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Edit the appearance and general
reactions of the grid
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Change the color of the notes. It
is recommended to have a different note color per
voice.
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Change text color
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Change the name of
the voice
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Add a new voice. A
different color will be calculated. The name of the
voice will be the name of the chosen instrument.
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Duplicate the voice.
The created voice will be identical except for the
color of the notes.
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Merge the voice. All the elements
associated with the voice will be duplicated on the
next voice and the voice will be deleted
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Divide the voice according to the
note whose pitch was clicked.
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Remove the voice. The current
voice will be deleted after confirmation if it is
not empty.
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Remove empty voices. Unnecessary
voices will be deleted.
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Number of time
divisions: change the number of divisions and adapt
the notes accordingly
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Calculate and Apply
Ambitus: The lowest and highest score are calculated
and used as the new viewing interval.
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Add a line: adds a note
pitch to the grid before or after the limit of the
range depending on the position of the click.
- A click in a note with the shift key pressed opens
the contextual menu for configuring the note:
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Fine note editing
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Generate a chord from this note
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Divide note
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Merge with the next note (on the
same line even if it is not contiguous)
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Merge with the previous note (on
the same line even if it is not contiguous)
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Start a slide at this note. You
will then choose the end note of the slide.
- A right click outside of a note adds a rule-dependent note.
- A double click on a symbol digitally edits it
- A long click puts a slur.
- Pressing the Alt key temporarily switches to
Selection mode.
- Pressing the Ctrl key (Command on macOS) key temporarily switches to
Delete mode.
SELECT MODE (lasso)
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The usual operations apply to the selection: copy,
delete, shift, etc.
You can :
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by left-clicking, select all the notes between two time positions
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by right clicking, select
all the notes in an area discontinuously
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by clicking on a box
with the shift key pressed or the right button,
create a discontinuous selection of notes
A long right click on one of the notes in the
selection applies an operation to all
of the selected notes.
A long right click on the selection outside of a
note quickly performs:
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Copy
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Paste
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Add
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Erase
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Recalibrate on grid
Pressing Ctrl key (Command on macOS) temporarily switches to
Delete mode.
TRY MODE (hammer)
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Clicking a note plays it.
Clicking outside of a note brings up a continuous
selection which is immediately played.
Clicking the keyboard plays the note with the
instrument of the active voice
SPLIT MODE (scisors)
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Clicking in a note divides it at that position into
two notes.
By clicking outside a note you define a vertical cut
line which will be able to cut several notes.
WELDING MODE (tube)
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A click on the right of a note welds it (merges)
with the note of the same height to its right, a
click on the left of a note welds it with the note
of the same height to its left, a click outside of
it 'a note defines a zone and welds on the right all
the selected notes of the same pitch
VELOCITY EDIT MODE
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When this mode is activated, the velocities are
represented by a color intensity in the box. The
numerical value of the velocity (0 to 127) is
displayed in the box.
A long click outside of a box defines a continuous
selection. Shift + click expand the selection.
Shift plus click on a box adds the box to the
discontinuous selection.
A right click outside a box selects all the boxes in
an area discontinuously.
A right click on a cell numerically changes the
velocity of the cell or selection
A long click on a cell and moving the mouse
vertically changes the velocity of the cell.
If the box is part of a selection (continuous or
discontinuous) this applies to all selected boxes.
- Pressing Ctrl key (Command on macOS) temporarily switches to
Delete mode.
-Pressing Alt key temporarily switches to
Selection mode.
WINDOW SPLIT
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Document windows can be split to simultaneously
represent multiple parts of the document.
COMPUTER KEYBOARD INPUT
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Notes can be entered via the computer keyboard. View
and modify the association via Configuration>
Edit keyboard.
Some keys allow you to change the base octave (Note to
Cursor section)
The duration of the added note can be proportional
to the duration of the key press, "Keyboard" pane of
general preferences.
MIDI IMPORT
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MIDI files (.mid, .kar) can be displayed as a piano roll when imported. This is set in the
general preferences, MIDI Import tab.
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