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Editing Pitches

The tools of the editors palette define several hierarchic edition levels.

A whole object can be selected with a click and drag in any case .

Adding Notes and Chords

Adding Notes in Note and Chord Objects

The default or current value of the object is modified.

Adding Notes to a Chord in a Chord-Seq

Chords can be edited in the chord-seq editor, or in an internal chord window.

Double click on the chord : the internal chord window pops up.

2. `Cmd` click on the staff to insert notes in the chord.

Adding Chords in a Chord-seq

  1. Select the note, chord or poly tool.

  2. Cmd click in the staff.

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Deleting Items

  1. Select the note, chord or poly tool, depending on the type of items you want to delete.

  2. Select one or more items and press Backspace.

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Extracting Chords

Chord factory boxes can be dragged out of any type of score editor - but the note editor.

To create a factory box :

  1. select the chord tool in the editor palette

  2. click on an item and dragg it to the patch editor.

It is materialized as a factory box.

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Score Editors

Group / Union Chords

The group and union chords commands allow to gather several chords into one chord.

  1. Select the items you want to group or union.

  2. Press * to group chords.

Press + to union chords.

On chord mode, chords are displayed the same way with both commands.

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Group Chords

The group chords command allows to preserve the individual offsets of the chords.

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Union Chords

The ** union chords ** command gathers several chords graphically and temporally in a same chord.

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Displaying Modes

Features

The order and offsets of the pitches in the list can be expressed via the
"order" and "offset" modes of the Editor Control.

The order and offsets of the pitches in the list can be expressed via the “order” and “offset” modes of the Editor Control.

The Editor Control lower menu allows to modify the displaying of chords. Notes can be ordered according to their :

A small vertical line marks the starting point of the chord.

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