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Modifying bar lines [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] It is also possible to reach it without the tool palette.
Place the mouse cursor on the measure and use the upper case
letter "R" on the keyboard. This shortcut directly
calls this dialog box, without activating the tool on the
palette. The upper part relates to the graphic aspect. Two menus let
you select the left and right bar lines type. An example measure
directly shows the graphic result. The available choices are: They graphically correspond - for the right bar line - to the
following: The two text areas located on the right let you select several
measures in which the modification will be done. You may for
example hide all bar lines at once, by selecting Invisible
for the 2 bar lines, from the first to the last measure of the
score. Open the palette called Graphic symbols. It contains
5 symbols used to complete the graphic aspects of repeats in most
current cases: Select the fourth one and add it above the third measure. By
clicking and dragging this symbol right bottom corner, widen it
to cover the whole measure: You may activate the reference marks tool to do so. Place the
next symbol on measure 4 to finally get: Simulation of repeats [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] Up to now those symbols only affect the graphic aspect of the
score. If you listen to this score, you will simply hear 5
measures one after the other, without taking the repeats into
account. Call the repeats dialog box for measure 3. The 10 text areas
located in the lower part let you fill in measure numbers. Each
measure contains such a table. By default, the 10 numbers are
"0". When Pizzicato plays the score and finds a measure
where these digits are different from "0", it uses
these numbers to skip to another measure, which can be elsewhere
in the score. If you set a value to -1, Pizzicato will stop
playing after that measure, so it is possible to stop playing
anywhere in the score, not necessarily at the last measure. When Pizzicato plays a measure for the first time, it is the
first number that is used to determine which is the next measure
to play. In our example, at the first passage, after measure 3,
it would be necessary to go back to measure 2 (repeat). Thus fill in "2" in the text area entitled Passage
1 and click OK. The complete sequence of the measures play must be as follows: 1 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 4 - 5 At the first passage for measure 2, you continue playing
measure 3. When you play measure 2 again (second passage), you
must go to measure 4. Call the bar lines dialog box for measure
2. Fill it to get: Click OK and listen to the score. Pizzicato follows
the sequence of measures as indicated above. You can similarly build various repeats. Each text box
specifies the number of the measure which must be played just
after the current measure, according to the number of passages
already executed on the concerned measure. As you may specify the
first 9 passages (the tenth box is valid starting from the tenth
passage and for the next ones), you can create very complex
repeat structures. Therefore, you need to analyze for each
concerned measures, the next measure to play for each passage and
to fill these numbers in these measures repeats dialog boxes. So as to be sure that this repeat system works correctly,
disable the loop function in the playing options for that score
("..." button next to the Play/Record buttons),
otherwise the loop will take priority and could interfere with
the logic explained here. Notice that the graphic aspect is completely independent of
the Midi play aspect. You can thus combine both as you want. You
can insert repeats which are not visualized on the score or to
add repeat symbols which do not have an effect on the score
playing. But you must know what you do and stay logical ! A repeat wizard helps you automatically calculate the passages
according to the repeat bars and to various standard symbols
found in the Graphic symbols tool palette (Tools
menu), like D.C., Al Coda,... and this for the most
conventional cases. Click on the Wizard... button found in the Bar
lines/repeats dialog and you will get te following: The central list displays one or more lines, with the measure
sequences that will be played. In our example, we have three
sequences 1-3, 2-2 and 4-5, which means that the full play of the
score will be measure 1 to 3, then measure 2, then measures 4 to
5. Each line is a sequence of consecutive measures. When you open this dialog, Pizzicato displays in it the
sequences of measures resulting to all the passages defined in
all the measures of the score. You can operate three actions with
it:
. Click on
measure 5. You get the following dialog box: