MakeMusic SongWriter User Guide
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2012
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WGC20-1
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Quick Reference Guide for Windows
Getting Started 4
A. Using the Document Setup Wizard ...............4
B. Opening files ..................................6
C. Sharing files ................................... 6
D. Importing and exporting MIDI files ...............7
Navigating Your Music 8
A. Choosing a view ...............................8
B. Zooming In and Out ...........................10
C. Dragging the Visible Score Region ..............11
D. Switching pages ..............................11
Entering Your Music: Simple Entry 12
A. Entering notes with your mouse ................12
B. Entering notes with your computer keyboard .....13
C. Typing notes into the score with your computer
keyboard .....................................14
D. Entering notes into the score with a MIDI keyboard 16
E. Working with Layers ...........................16
Playing in Your Music —HyperScribe
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A. Recording a performance ......................18
B. Setting the smallest note value ..................18
C. Recording into two staves ...................... 19
Selecting Music 20
A. Selecting regions and measures ................20
B. Expanding selection ...........................21
Using Contextual Menus 22
Copying, Pasting, and Inserting 24
A. Drag-copying .................................24
B. Clipboard-copying .............................24
C. Inserting music ...............................25
Changing the Measure Layout 26
A. Fitting a certain number of measures per system ..26
B. Adjusting the measure layout manually .......... 27
Working with Staves 28
A. Adding instruments ...........................28
B. Deleting instruments ..........................28
C. Applying Alternate Notation ....................29
D. To move staves ..............................29
Markings and Text 30
A. Adding expressions ...........................30
B. Adding articulations ...........................31
C. Adding slurs and hairpins ......................32
D. Adding text ...................................33
Key Signatures, Time Signatures, and Clefs 34
A. Defining a key signature .......................34
B. Defining a time signature ......................35
C. Defining a clef change .........................35
Lyrics, Chords, and Repeats 36
A. Typing in lyrics ................................36
B. Typing in chord symbols .......................37
C. Creating repeats with 1st and 2nd endings .......37
Playback 38
A. Playback Controls .............................38
B. Changing the playback tempo ..................38
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C. Using Human Playback
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Page Layout 40
Sharing Your Music 41
A. Printing your score ............................41
B. Exporting an audio file ......................... 42
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Getting Started
A. Using the Document Setup Wizard
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Add or remove instruments
and click Next.
SongWriter’s Document Setup Wizard is usually the fastest way to begin a new score.
The pages in this wizard allow you to quickly specify all the basic score elements.
From the File menu, choose New >
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Document with Setup Wizard.
Choose the ensemble and Document
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Style and click Next.
Document Styles include fonts and
markings designed for particular
types of documents, in this case,
a choral jazz arrangement.
See “Setup Wizard” in the User Manual for details.
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On pages 3 and 4, indicate
the desired score elements,
and click Finish.
Pages 3 and 4 allow you to specify the:
• Title
• Credits and copyright
• Key signature
• Time signature
• Tempo indication
• Pickup measure
• Number of measures
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B. Opening files
D. Importing and exporting MIDI files
Open a SongWriter file by choosing Open from the File menu. SongWriter 2012 can open all Finale® notation files
(*.MUS) saved in SongWriter 2012 or earlier, as well as those saved in other Finale-family notation products.
C. Sharing files
SongWriter's native file format is the Finale Notation file (*.MUS). These files are cross-platform, which
means the same file can be opened on either a Macintosh
not backwards compatible, which means a SongWriter 2012 document cannot be opened in SongWriter
2010 or any previous version of SongWriter. To open a SongWriter 2012 file in SongWriter 2010, export the
file in MusicXML format.
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or a Windows® computer. SongWriter files are
SongWriter 2010 SongWriter 2012
MusicXML
SongWriter 2012
SongWriter 2010
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SongWriter can import and export standard MIDI files. MIDI files can be understood by most music
programs including sequencers and digital audio workstations. If you prefer to compose by recording into
your favorite sequencer, you can save your piece as a standard MIDI file. Then, open the file (File > Open)
and SongWriter will convert it to notation. Saving your SongWriter document as a MIDI file is just as easy...
To save your score as a MIDI file
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From the File menu, choose Save As.
2
From the Format popup menu,
choose MIDI File (*.MID).
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Click Save.
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Navigating Your Music
Getting the best view of your score-in-progress is crucial to working with SongWriter efficiently.
A. Choosing a view
You can view your music in Page View or Scroll View.
From the View menu, choose Scroll View or Page View.
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ctrl
Press +
E
to switch between Page
View and Scroll View
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Page View
displays your music exactly as it will appear on the printed
page. Use this view for system and page layout.
Scroll View
displays your music in
one continuous horizontal
system, free from page
constraints.
Search “Views” in the User Manual for more details.
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B. Zooming In and Out
C. Dragging the Visible Score Region
You can find zoom commands under the View menu, but to save time, use keyboard shortcuts.
ctrl
Press + to zoom in
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Zooming in and out using your mouse cursor:
Click with the middle mouse button to zoom in to the position clicked.
ctrl
+ click with the middle mouse button to zoom out.
For more, search “Zoom” in the User Manual.
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ctrl
Press + to zoom out
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Use SongWriter’s Hand Grabber Tool to reposition your view of the score.
Right-click and drag to move the score.
D. Switching pages
In Page View, use the arrow buttons in
the lower left corner of your screen to
navigate between pages. Or, use the
keystrokes listed here:
Page
Down
Search for “Page View” in the User
Manual for more information.
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ctrl
Press +
to move to the previous page.
Search for “Hand Grabber” in the User
Manual for more information.
ctrl
Press +
Page
Up
to move to the next page.
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Entering Your Music: Simple Entry
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Click the Simple Entry Tool
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Note the Simple menu (a) appears at the top of your screen. You will use
this menu to change settings and refer to keyboard shortcuts.
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Note the Simple Entry Palette (b), which you will use to specify note
durations and other note properties.
A. Entering notes with your mouse
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Click the note duration in the Simple Entry Palette, as well as
the accidental, tie, tuplet, or grace note.
2
Position your mouse cursor where you would like to enter the note.
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Click to enter the note. SongWriter flips the stem direction
when appropriate.
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a.
b.
B. Entering notes with your computer keyboard
Use your numeric keypad (c) to choose note durations before you click them in. Use
the image to the right as a guide. To remove extra tools, double-press as shown below.
To change the
selected duration.
(press once)
To select only the
duration and remove
(press twice)
the dot and flat.
Notes are purple when you enter them,
indicating they can be edited with a keystroke.
Change the duration of the note you just
entered by pressing Alt + # (1-8).
Press numpad 9 and
click to add a triplet.
c.
LAPTOP USERS: Use the
“Laptop Shortcut Table” to
improve the efficiency of your
smaller keyboard. Choose
Simple > Keyboard Shortcut
Set > Laptop Shortcut Set.
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Tip: Double-click one of these tools to
de-select all other tools in the Simple
Entry Palette.
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alt
+
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All Simple Entry keyboard shortcuts
are listed under the Simple menu.
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