Notation Help Again, Please

[Jazzooo]

YHikes--I take one sep forward and several steps back!

 

I was looking a a trumpet part in Page View, and I rested my elbow on my keyboard. Suddenly, the image of the notation is incredibly huge and I can't figure out a way to get it back to normal! I obviously zoomed, but when I zoom in and out now, it starts and ends at that huge size.

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks,

 

Doug

[Jazzooo]

Great, it went back to the normal size without me doing anything I realized I was doing! I still need to know how to control that.

 

A follow up question: I am arranging a piece that begins with the trumpet resting for 14 measures while other instruments play. However, looking at my page view, even though i recorded in real time while listening to the other parts, the notation for the trumpet starts on the first measure of the page. The measure *is* numbered '15' but where are the first 14 measures of rest? I don't get it.

[Jazzooo]

And while I'm asking questions:

 

If I have my page view open for, say, a trumpet part, and then I decided to edit a single note, why does the page view suddenly change to something that also shows the drum, bass and tenor sax parts? Every time I do an edit, I have to close page view and open it again. Is there some kind of preference set for 'inconvenient'?

[michael.lee]

A follow up question: I am arranging a piece that begins with the trumpet resting for 14 measures while other instruments play. However, looking at my page view, even though i recorded in real time while listening to the other parts, the notation for the trumpet starts on the first measure of the page. The measure *is* numbered '15' but where are the first 14 measures of rest? I don't get it.

 

It's good to keep in mind that what you see in the score window is a graphic representation of data that's in the arrange window.

 

In other words, the number of bars in the score will match the length of the region in the arrange window. To get those first 14 measures to show up, go into the arrange window, and stretch the left edge of the region all the way back to measure one.

[Jazzooo]

Ok, Michael--I think I see what you're saying and I'll try it in just a sec. Thank you. But doesn't that makes things like going to the middle of a song and playing a two bar figure kind of difficult? I mean, every time I do that, I have to then drag the new region back to the end of the last region? Can I make a region start where I press record, or only when my fingers finally hit a note?

 

By the way, I figured out the weird zoom thing--somehow, the dealie-bob in the upper right hand corner went wild from some errant key command!

[michael.lee]

Two things that will help - under recording options, check "Merge new recording with selected sequences", and any new material will automatically be merged in with existing regions on the same track, if it's selected.

 

Second, get familiar with the key command for "merge regions". If you have a two bar figure that stays out for 97 measures until the end of the song, you don't have to drag the region back the whole way. Simply click in the track with a pencil tool at bar 1 of song, which will create a new region. Then, select both that region and the region 97 bars later, and hit the key command for "merge". It will join them into one long continuous region stretching from bar 1 to bar 97 where your two bar figure begins.