The Staff View - CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO User Manual

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The Staff View

The Staff view is composed of a Staff pane and a Fretboard.
When you Þrst open the Staff view, you may see only the Staff and not
the Fretboard. Resize the Staff view by dragging its edges until you can
see everything easily. When you save your Þle, whatever size the Staff
view is will be the way it appears the next time you open the Þle.
The Staff pane displays MIDI note events as musical notation. For some
musicians, this may be the most familiar and comfortable view in which
to work. The Staff pane provides many features that make it easy for you
to compose, edit, and print music.
For guitar players who are new to musical notation, the Fretboard repre-
sents the notes in the Staff pane as they would appear on a six-string
guitar neck in standard tuning. The number of strings and the tuning
are conÞgurable. All notes that appear in the Staff pane at the Now time
are shown in the Fretboard. If you enter notes in the Staff at the Now
time, they appear on the Fretboard. Likewise, you can enter notes into
the Staff at the Now time by clicking the guitar strings on the fretboard.
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