If you click the right mouse button on a note in the musical staff screen, a small dialog box opens up with the title Edit note properties.
This displays the pitch,
volume, duration, bar, beat, tick, and instrument of the selected note. Also, if
there are any words stored for this tune, and there is a word for this note, it
will also be displayed.
You can change any of these note attributes, or delete the note.
To delete the note, simply click the deep pink Delete Note button.
To change the pitch, click on the up or down spin button just to the right of the pitch box, and it will cycle through the notes in the chromatic scale, until you reach the desired new pitch. For example, if you start at middle C (displayed as C4) and hit the up button, it will change to C#4, then to D4, and so on.
The volume is changed in similar fashion, except that this is a number between 0 and 127, where 127 is the loudest volume possible, and 0 is silent.
The duration changes in increments of 0.25 of a crotchet, in other words, in semi-quaver jumps. So a duration of 2 is a minim, 0.5 is a quaver, 1 is a crotchet, and so on.
The bar, beat and tick are all numbers which need to be typed in. The beat can be between 1 and the number of beats per bar. The tick is in units of 1/120 of a crotchet, so it can range from 0 to 119. For example, tick = 60 means start half way through the specified beat.
The instrument is easily changed using the drop-down list box, which displays names of all the 128 standard Midi instruments.
If there is a word shown against the note clicked, to change it, simply type over it. If there is no word and you wish to add one, click the beige Add Word button.
When all changes are complete, click the green Save button to change the note. The staff will change to reflect the new note properties. However, if the bar number has been changed, you will need to move the slider to the new bar number, in order to view the changed note. Also, if the pitch has been changed so it is above the high D above the Treble Clef, or below the B below middle C, it will not show on the staff, but it is still stored in the tune.
Clicking the yellow Cancel button will close the dialog box without saving any changes to the note. This help screen is obtained either by clicking the blue Help button or by hitting F1 whilst the focus is on the dialogue box.