Cakewalk ScoreWriter User Manual

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Cakewalk Score Writer Getting Started

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Table of Contents

Introduction ................................................................... 1

Score Writer ...............................................................................1

Learning Score Writer ................................................................1

On-line Help ...............................................................................2

Score Writer Windows ...............................................................2

Writing Your First Score ............................................... 3

Starting Score Writer .................................................................3

Assigning Instruments ...........................................................4

Opening the Tutorial File ...........................................................5

Preparing The Score ...................................................................5

Entering Notes ...........................................................................6

Editing Notes .............................................................................8

Changing Pitch or Duration ..................................................8

Erasing ..................................................................................9

Adding a Pickup Measure ..........................................................9

Adding a Slur ...........................................................................11

Entering Symbols .....................................................................11

Dynamics ............................................................................12

Ornaments and Articulations ..............................................13

Adding Voices .........................................................................13

Changing Stem Directions .......................................................15

Cursor Toggle ..........................................................................16

Saving ......................................................................................16

Beyond the Basics ....................................................... 17

Adding Staves ..........................................................................17

Setting Up Staves .....................................................................19

Setting Up MIDI ......................................................................20

Recording MIDI .......................................................................21

Metronome ......................................................................... 21

Record Options ................................................................... 21

Transcription Quantize ....................................................... 22

Linking Staves to MIDI Devices ............................................. 22

Recording ................................................................................ 23

Setting up Step Record ............................................................ 24

Adding Chords ........................................................................ 26

Adding Lyrics .......................................................................... 27

Printing .................................................................................... 28

Setting up the Score ............................................................ 28

Printing ............................................................................... 28

Templates ................................................................................ 28

Introduction

Score Writer

Score Writer is fun to learn and easy to use. You can write music and hear the results immediately.

Score Writer runs on almost any Windows 95 or 98 computer. You can install and set it up in just a few minutes. Then you can create piano, band, orchestral, choral, and lead sheet notation and print your arrangements of up to sixteen instruments.

Learning Score Writer

Cakewalk provides two learning tools for Score Writer:

Cakewalk Score Writer: Getting Started . This guide contains step-by-step

tutorials designed to introduce you to Score WriterÕs basic features. Work through the tutorials to get up and running quickly.

Cakewalk Score Writer: On-line Help. Descriptions of every toolbar,

button, palette, tool, menu, command, window, and dialog box in Score Writer. Procedures to show you how to use everything and get your job done. Consult help when you need to understand any feature in greater depth.

On-line Help

To see on-line help about a particular topic:

The Help key. Press F1 to get context-sensitive help about highlighted

commands, about active dialog boxes and their parts, and about active windows.

The Help button. Click the help button in any dialog box to get help

about that dialog box.

The Help menu. Choose Help>Contents (the Contents command in the

Help menu) contents, by topic, and by index.

to see the entire on-line help system. You can navigate it by

Score Writer Windows

Score Window. The score window displays a traditional music score. Use

it to enter, view and modify your musical score.

Tool Bar. The tool barÕs buttons open all of Score WriterÕs tool palettes.

Use the tool bar to select tools for writing and modifying music in the score window.

Transport Window. Use the transport window to control MIDI recording

and playback, and to select the MIDI thru instrument.

Tracks Window. Use the tracks window to work with tracks: to specify

how many voices they have, and whether notes in each voice should automatically ßip stems up or down when you enter them. You also determine which tracks play and which are silent, and which MIDI playback devices, programs, channels and transpositions belong to which tracks.

Chords Window. The chords window contains a list of possible chord

sufÞxes, as well as root and bass names. Use the chords window to insert chord names into your score with the mouse.

Lyrics Window. Use the lyrics window to type or change lyrics and assign

them to notes in the score.

Step Input Window. Use the step input window to build a score by

recording notes, rests, rhythmic and slash notation, and chords, one step at a time.

2 Chapter 1: Introduction

Writing Your First Score

In this tutorial, you start constructing a score for ÒAmazing GraceÓ using some of the note and symbol tools available in Score Writer.

Writing a Score

Tool Bar

Score

Window

Page Vie w

Controls

Location controls

Starting Score Writer

When you open Score Writer for the Þrst time, the Score Window appears. Score Writer asks you to set up your MIDI devices and assign instruments to them in the Assign Instruments dialog box.

Page navigation

Assigning Instruments

If you plan to use MIDI, once youÕve set up your MIDI devices you need to assign a MIDI instrument deÞnition to each available MIDI port and channel. The assignments you make determine the MIDI bank names, patch names, note names, and controller names that you see.

1. Select one or more MIDI ports and channels from the Port/ Channel list (use Shift-click and Control-click to select multiple ports and channels).

2. Choose the instrument to which the selected ports and channels should be assigned from the Uses Instrument list. A black line connects the two lists.

3. To save these changes permanently, check the Save Changes for Next Session box.

4. Click OK when you are done.

From now on, Score Writer uses the bank, patch, controller, and note names from the assigned instrument.

You can change your choices in the Assign Instruments dialog box any time. Display it by choosing

Options>Instruments .

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Opening the Tutorial File

Score Writer comes with a Þle called ÒTutorial.Ó To open this Þle:

1. Choose File>Open .

Score Writer opens the directory dialog box.

2. Find the ﬁle called “Tutorial,” then click the Open button. Score Writer opens the Tutorial ﬁle.

Use this specially prepared, blank score for this tutorial.

Preparing The Score

The Þrst step in constructing the score is setting the key and time signature.

1. Choose the Arrow Cursor tool from the Tool Bar.

2. Click somewhere in the ﬁrst measure, so that the insertion point is positioned within that measure.

Blinking insertion point

Writing a Score

3. Choose Measures>Set Key . The Set Key Signature dialog box opens.

Click here twice to move the key up two fifths.

4. Click the up arrow twice to move the key up to D Major, then click the OK button.

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Since this piece is in 3/4 time, you need to change the time signature.

1. Choose Measures>Set Meter .The Set Meter dialog box opens.

2. Click the 3/4 button at the top of the window to set the score to 3/4 time.

3. Click OK . Your score looks like this:

Entering Notes

Now youÕre ready to add some notes. Before you add each note, you have to specify a duration for it. There are three ways to do so:

¥ Press and hold the note paletteÕs icon in the Tool Bar, choose a note

from the pop-up menu, and release the mouse button. The note palette vanishes.

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