Musette Free Music Editing Software
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To add a symbol, just select from the green toolbar, then repeatedly click and drag to position that symbol anywhere in the score. Select other toolbars from the "Draw" menu. Function key shortcuts allow quick selection of common toolbars, and number keys allow quick note entry at the mouse position (1=whole note, 2=half note, etc.). To move or adjust any object on the screen, just click and drag. Musette can optionally play notes as they move to help find the correct pitch. Notes can optionally be "locked" to allow moving horizontally, but not vertically. Clicking on any symbol hilights that symbol in red for additional commands, deleting, etc. Most menu commands (transpose, play, stem direction, etc.) can apply to just the hilighted symbol (note, beamed chord, group, staff, brace, etc.), a marked block, or the entire score. Dots, accidentals and other symbols attach to notes or rests, moving as a unit. Add beams by selecting the beam symbol from the toolbar, click on the first note and drag through the other notes. Musette does the rest. You can move the beamed notes as a group, and change the height or angle of the beam with a simple click and drag. While moving a note within a beamed group, Musette automatically adjusts the beam. Ties/slurs, and chords work in a similar way. When moving a staff or brace, the Consort Edition can also move all following staves or braces as if they were all linked together. The gray status bar at the bottom shows the edit mode for moving or resizing objects and the slider adjusts volume. The Consort Edition also shows the mouse position. Group notes into chords that move together to maintain vertical alignment. Besides clicking and draging, the only other things you need to learn to get started are the "Edit/Move" (F8), "Edit/Resize" (F7), and "Format/Move All" (F9) menu commands. These allow choosing between such things as changing beam height or beam angle, locking note pitches but allowing horizontal motion, moving or resizing a marked block, and how much of the staff gets scaled when dragging bar lines. |