Part properties
(Redirected from Part options dialog)
The part properties menu for any part is to be reached from the score overview after selecting the desired part, but also by using [Part|Part properties].
- Part name
- the part name is used to keep track of voices. The part name is used internally.
- Part title
- the part title is the label to show with the first line in a score (to hide all part-headers deselect text type in [Options|Text|Part title])
- Abbreviation
- a label to show near all other lines in a score. Layout: [Options|Text|Next part title]
- Tuning
- an (optional) text to display in single-voice part-extractions when printing a part for transposing instruments.the label to show with the first line in a score (to hide all part-headers set text type
- Chord diagrams
- the instrument to display chord diagrams for as available in the chord diagrams file mcdiagrams
- Instrument
- midi instrument to be used when playing
- Top staff height
- reserved extra whitespace above the staff.
- Bottom staff height
- reserved extra whitespace below the staff.
- Nr-staff lines
- Usually 5 lines. For percussion parts is will be set to 1.
- Transposition
- Transposition is the number of semitones a part is played higher than written
- MIDI-channel
- The midi-channel a voice is assigned to. Note that percussion and drums need channel 10 to sound right.
- Volume
- MIDI-volume (0-127) a part should start with (will be different when using dynamic markers within the tune.)
- Pan
- Panning (balance) or position in a stereo sound.(0=left, 63=center, 127=right.) See mixer for an easy way to set.
- Bar-continuation
- Number of bars that will be used for automatic (drum-part) 0 to disable. Note: setting bar-continuation to anything other than 0 will overwrite all bars with a repeated copies of the first # bars (still full of bugs)
- Fingering Above
- Default position for fingering is above the staff
- Fingering below
- Default position for fingering is below the staff
- Note letters
- 'Easynote' display; each note is drawn with a letter inside
- Help letters
- each note is drawn with a letter underneath/above - location determined in [Options|Music].
- Audible
- Let a voice be audible on playback
- Meter-accents
- On playback give important notes extra accentuation (see playback dialog)
- Visible
- Hide a voice from a score.
- Break bar lines
- Stop bar lines from running from top of score to bottom.
- Curly-bracing
- BreakCurlybracing
- Bracing
- BreakBracing
- Settings to group barlines with braces and/or curly braces.
- Calculated
- Take voice into account for layout without being visible
- Only text
- Use text from voice without showing the voice's notes
- Separate notes
- Separate notes instead of clusterize (old fashioned typesetting of sung music)
- No bar lines
- Hide all bar lines in this voice.
- No rest staffs
- Whenever a voice contains only rests for one staff line, hide the staff within the score.
- Cue-size part
- Typeset entire voice with cue-size notes
- Sync-rest visible
- If a voice is has less bars than other voices MusiCAD will usually make complaints. In a score these 'missing' bars will be padded using special rests, to allow normal score rendering.