Help Start Page

1 - Getting Started

• Step 1: Installing NoteAbilityPro
• Step 2: Setting up your MIDI Connections
• Step 3: Authorizing NoteAbilityPro
• Step 4: Observing the Application Layout
• Step 5: Setting up your initial preferences
• Step 6: Create a New Score
• Step 7: Enter Some Music into the Score

2 - Overview

• Introduction to NoteAbilityPro
• Basic Steps for Creating a Score
• Contacting Opus 1 Music

3 - Basic Program Operation

• Create a new document
• Document setup
• Customizing your document setup
• Set NoteAbilityPro preferences
• Using the Score Controls
• Using the NoteAbilityPro tools
• Music Images and Score Structure panels
• Multi-Page Display
• Open an existing document
• Save a new document
• Save changes
• Save document under a new name
• Save in another file format
• Close a document
• Hide NoteAbilityPro
• Quit NoteAbilityPro

4 - Entering Music Into the Score

• Entering music images
• Entering notes with the mouse
• Entering notes with the on-screen keyboard
• Entering notes in step-time with a MIDI keyboard
• Entering notes with the MIDI recorder
• Entering notes from MIDI file
• Entering chords
• Entering text
• Entering lyrics
• Adding graphic images
• Working with Adobe Illustrator

5 - Adjusting and Editing the Music

• NoteAbilityPro Layers
• Adjusting the Score Layout
• Selecting and Editing Images
• Cut, Copy and Paste Operations
• About the pasteboard

6 - Music Images Panel

• Working with the Music Images Panel
• Playback Controls Pane
• Image Attributes Pane
• Note Attributes Pane
• Accidentals, Articulations, Ties Pane
• Graphics, Lines & Tuplet Pane
• Symbols & Glissandi Pane
• Lyrics Pane
• Performance Settings Pane
• Beams, Tremolo Beams, Tremolo Pane

7 - Score Structure Panel

• Working with the Score Structure Panel
• Time Signatures Pane
• Clefs & Key Signatures Pane
• Barlines & Braces Pane
• Measure/Page Numbers Pane
• Staff Hide/Show/Spacing Pane
• Staff Attibutes Pane
• Measures & Systems On Page Pane
• Transpose / Shift Images Pane
• Edit Filter / Delete Pages Pane
• Panel & Edit Buttons Pane

8 - NoteAbilityPro Menus

• NoteAbilityPro menu
• File menu
• Edit menu
• Format menu
• Tools menu
• Tools/Score Following submenu
• Tools/Score Following/IIMPE submenu
• Modify menu
• Modify/Notes submenu
• Modify/Accidentals submenu
• Modify/Tuplets submenu
• Modify/Beams submenu
• Modify/Beams/Beam Extensions submenu
• Modify/Rests submenu
• Modify/Barlines submenu
• Modify/Cresc-Decresc submenu
• Modify/Text submenu
• Modify/Font menu
• Modify/Font/Text Format submenu
• Modify/Page submenu
• Audio-MIDI menu
• Window menu
• Help menu

9 - Other NoteAbilityPro Panels

• Document Size panel
• Overview Panel
• Colors panel
• Font panel
• Staff Spacing Panel
• Part Extraction Panel
• Panic Panel
• Image List Panel
• Text Library Panel
• Image Library Panel
• Meter Map Panel
• Playback Map Panel
• Tempo Map Panel
• Lute Entry Panel
• Guitar Tablature Panel
• Dulcimer Tablature Panel
• Speech Recognition Controls
• Guido Panel
• Max Settings Panel
• Transport Controls
• Extended Note Panel
• Network Port Panel
• Antescofo Support
• OpenMusic Support
• NoteWriter Controls
• Custom Noteheads Panel
• Custom Key Signature Panel
• Custom Staves Panel
• Nested Tuplets Panel
• Irrational Time Signatures Panel
• Velocity Editor
• GFWD Editor Panel
• GFWD Note Editor Panel
• Antescofo Monitor Panel

10 - Page Setup and Printing

• Page Layout
• Print a document

11 - Audio and Playback

• Audio Options
• Track Setup Panel
• Midi Ports Panel
• Audio Units Panel
• Adding Audio Files
• Breakpoint Functions
• Advanced Midi Controls

12 - Reference

• QuickScrawl
• QuickKeys
• Figured Bass symbols
• Command list
• Hot Button
• Control Points
• Cursors
• Questions and answers
• Keyboard alternatives and shortcuts
• Music Font layout
• NoteAbilityPro definitions
• Music Performance Terms
• Glossary
• NoteAbilityPro features
• NoteAbilityPro package contents
• NoteAbilityPro system requirements
• NoteAbilityPro registration
• NoteAbilityPro licensing agreement
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Release Notes

13 - Example Scores and Tutorials

• Example scores
• Tutorial 1
• Tutorial 2
• Interfacing Max/MSP and NoteAbilityPro

© Keith A. Hamel 1998-2005 - All Rights Reserved