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Musio Studio manualChapter 8

Score

Score is Musio Studio's notation editor. See your song as a full score or as any player's part, follow it as it plays, and export PDFs and MusicXML.

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  1. Open the score
  2. Layouts
  3. Transposed and Clean Up
  4. What the score shows
  5. Changing the music
  6. Parts
  7. Export the score and parts
  8. Bring in a score

Score shows your song as notation, in its own window: the full score, or any player’s part. The score is made from your tracks and keeps up as you change them.

The Score window as a song plays.

Open the score

Click Score next to Piano Roll in the Tracks toolbar, or choose View > Show Score (Shift+Cmd+NShift+Ctrl+N).

  • As the song plays, the score follows it and turns to the next page when the music gets there.
  • Click anywhere in the score to move the playhead there (if the song is playing, it continues from that spot). Press Space to play or stop.
  • Drag to move around the page.
The Score button next to Piano Roll in the Tracks toolbar
The Score button.

Layouts

ChooseTo see
Full Score menuThe full score, or one player’s part
One PageOne page at a time
Two PagesTwo pages side by side, as on a conductor’s stand
ScrollOne long line of music, every staff
Zoom out, Fit, zoom inSmaller, whole pages, or larger
The Score window with numbered callouts on the Full Score menu, One Page, Two Pages, Scroll, Transposed, Clean Up, the zoom buttons and Export
The Score window and its controls.
  1. Full Score
  2. One Page
  3. Two Pages
  4. Scroll
  5. Transposed
  6. Clean Up
  7. Zoom Out, Fit, Zoom In
  8. Export
The score in Scroll: one long line of music
Scroll: one long line of music.

Transposed and Clean Up

SettingOnOff
TransposedAs the players read itThe score in C
Clean UpWhat the notes meanThe notes exactly as played
A Staff for Each TrackEvery track on a staff of its own

Clean Up puts note starts on the grid, ties sustained notes, adds staccatos to short notes, and leaves out keyswitch notes. Your notes in the song don’t change.

The same bars with Clean Up on and off
Clean Up on (left) and off (right).

What the score shows

  • Dynamics: from the Dynamics lane (CC1), or from loudness, as marks and hairpins.
  • Slurs over legato phrases.
  • Clefs that change automatically.
  • Tuplets, octave lines, pedal markings and rolled chords.

Score is engraved in the Bravura music font.

Changing the music

Score is for reading, playing and exporting: you can’t enter or edit notes on the staff, and Delete in the Score window deletes nothing. To change the music, edit the notes in the Piano Roll, or play and record them. The score updates as you go.

Step Record keeps working while the Score window is in front: the notes go into the track, and the score shows them.

Parts

To see one player’s part, choose it in the Full Score menu. Turn on Transposed to see it as the player reads it.

One player's part, transposed
A player's part, as they read it.

Export the score and parts

Choose Export in the Score window:

ExportWhat you get
MusicXML…A MusicXML file, for other notation software
Score (PDF)…The full score as a PDF
This Part (PDF)…The part you’re looking at as a PDF
All Parts (PDF)…Every part as its own PDF. Studio asks for a folder to put them in
The Score window's Export menu: MusicXML..., Score (PDF)..., This Part (PDF)... and All Parts (PDF)...
Export the score, one part or every part.

Bring in a score

File > Import MIDI or MusicXML… makes a new song from a MIDI or MusicXML file, with a Musio sound for every part. See Import MIDI or MusicXML.

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