Working with the Music Images Panel

If the Music Images panel is not already visible on your screen, choose Music Images Panel... from the Tools menu to make it visible.

The Music Images panel contains extensible rows of panes which can be used for altering or modifying most music images on your score. The pull-down menu at the top of the panel (entitled Available Panes) allows you to add or remove panes from the panel. A check mark in the pull-down menu indicates which panes are included in the pane and can be removed - the absense of a check mark means that pane can be added. A total of 9 panes can be stored in the Music Images panel. In the example below, 5 panes are included in the panel.

and the Available Panes menu looks like:

You can see from this menu that three panes are not loaded into panel.:

Symbols & Glissandi
Performance Settings
Beams, Ties, Tremolo

Since each pane has 2 or 3 tab views (which can be accessed by clicking on the tab), a total of 24 panes (or views) is available in this panel. In order to access the individual tab views, you must first ensure that the pane to which the view belongs has been added to the panel. Then you can click on the tab to display the individual controls you are looking for.

The five numbered buttons along the top of this panel allow you to store preset arrangements of the panes and save them as preferences. To store an arrangement of visible panes, hold the Shift key down while clicking on one of the numbered buttons. To recall a stored preset, click on the button and the stored configuration of panes will be loaded and displayed.

Below is a list of the main panes and the tab views that are contained in each pane.

Main Pane	Tab Views	Description
Playback Controls
	Playback	Controls for playing the score and setting playback tempo
	Tracks	Controls for indicating which staves (tracks) are turned on or off for playback
	Options	Controls for isolating single staves (tracks) for playback

Image Attributes
	Image Size	Controls for altering the point size of selected images
	Colour	Controls for altering the colour of selected images

Note Attributes
	Note Attrib	Controls for changing attributes of notes such as the duration value or the presence of ledger lines or stems
	Heads	Controls for changing the type of notehead on selected images
	Early	Controls for entering and converting to early music notation

Accidentals, Articulations, Ties
	Accidentals	Controls for adding or modifying accidentals on notes
	Articulations	Controls for adding or removing articulation marks on notes
	Ties	Controls for altering the drawing position and appearance of ties

Graphics & Lines
	Graphics	Controls for setting colours and other attributes of rectangles, ovals and curves
	Lines	Controls for setting the type, thickness, and other attributes of lines
	Pedal Lines	Controls for pedal lines
	Tuplets	Controls for creating complex (nested) tuplets

Symbols & Glissandi
	Fermati	Controls for setting the characteristic of fermati and attaching them to notes
	Symbols	Controls for setting the characteristic of music symbols and attaching them to notes
	Glissandi	Controls for glissandi between notes

Lyrics
	Lyrics	Controls for connecting lyrics and setting verses
	Lyric Fonts	Controls for choosing and setting the fonts of lyrics

Performance Settings
	Velocity	Controls for altering the velocity (volume) of selected notes
	Duration	Controls for altering the playback durations of selected notes
	Mute Notes	Controls for muting or unmuting notes during playback

Beams, Tremolo Beams, Tremolo
	Beams	Controls for altering the appearance of beam groupings
	Beam X	Controls for creating feathered beams
	Tremolo Beams	Controls for adding measured tremolo between selected notes
	Tremolo	Controls for adding tremolo slashes to selected notes

- When you quit NoteAbilityPro, the configuration of the Music Images panel (i.e. which panes have been loaded into the panels and which panes are open) is saved as a preference and will be loaded next time you launch the program.