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
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Introduction
1
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
2
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 .
4 Chapter 2: Writing Your First Score
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.
Chapter 2: Writing Your First Score 5
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.
Or
6 Chapter 2: Writing Your First Score
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