The global view |
How to open the global view? [Beginner] [Professional] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] The global view is not a new window. It is
located inside the score view. It is an extension of the linear
mode used to display the staves. The idea behind this new view is
to have access to the most important tools existing in several
different Pizzicato windows. By having these music controls and
tools all inside the same window, you can compose music much
easier, as you do not need to open and close several different
windows, each time adjusting their positions to accomodate your
screen and see what you need to display. To open the global view, just open the normal score view. On
the score window tool bar, you can select the Global
item in the Linear/Page/Global menu. In this lesson, we will explain the various parts of this
window. You will notice that most of these parts duplicate the
functions of another Pizzicato window or tool. So in explaining
the various parts, we will make a summary of these functions and
refer you to the lessons that give more details about them. The
real contribution of this window is to assemble in one view most
of the practical tools you need to compose music efficiently. It
tries to offer you the best of the Pizzicato tools in one single
window. The main header bar [Beginner] [Professional] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] The main header bar is the upper part of the content of the
window. It is located just below the main tool bar of the score
window: Each chord is displayed with 3 icons. You can modify and
manipulate the chords in several ways: If you click again on the same You can also double-click the In Pizzicato Professional and Composition,
you can also drag and drop an harmonic space from the library
into the chords area. It will then be possible to select
chords according to the rules of the harmonic space. With a
right-click you can then select another chord that respects
the rules to follow the previous chord. See the lesson on Harmonic spaces in the manual
for all details (Pizzicato Professional and Composition
only). Regarding harmonic spaces, once you have added an harmonic
space into the chord area, you can edit it with a CTRL+click
on the You can resize this area vertically by clicking and moving
the gray bar just below this area. These scales are assigned automatically, but with this
global view, you can select which one to use by
right-clicking on one of the scales. Pizzicato will list the
main scales that fit the chord and you can then select it
from the menu. These scales influence the coloring of notes
and also several Pizzicato Professional and Composition
tools. In Pizzicato Professional and Composition Pro,
you can also drag chords and scales from the music
composition libraries (Conductor view) and drop them
respectively in the chords and scale areas. You can
double-click a scale in the scale area and change its root
note. The measure numbers help you to locate measures. The upper
gray lane above it may contain customized markers, with a
name and a color. Double-click in that lane, around the
beginning of measure 2. The following dialog appears: Fill it with the text "Introduction" and select
a green color in the small white square. Then click OK.
The marker is displayed: You can add markers with a double-click. If you
right-click an existing marker, a contextual menu proposes to
modify it (text and color) or delete it. You can also drag
the left border of a marker to shift it in time. Markers help you to locate various parts of your
composition. The following operations may be performed inside this
audio track area: Only Pizzicato Professional and Composition
Pro can have more than one audio track. Here is a summary of how to use this dialog: When you validate the dialog, only the staves displayed in
the right list will be displayed in the global view. This is
used to decide for instance to display only the strings of an
orchestral score when you want to work on them separately. This means that the aspect of the global view, as you
choose which areas to display, is stored in this first
memory. This includes the chords, scales and audio tracks
areas as well as the selection of visible staves. This also
includes all the setup of what is displayed within each
staff, as we will explain further in this lesson. All this
setup is stored in the current memory. A memory setup is by default displaying all staves and
nothing else. Once you have setup the global view to display
for instance the chords and audio tracks, the brass and
percussion staves of your orchestral composition, you may
then click on the second memory button. This resets the
global view to its default setup. You can then use the second
memory for instance to work the woodwinds. Then you select
memory setup 3 and prepare it for instance to see all volume
effects, for each staff. While working your music composition, you can switch
between those three prepared configurations, just by using
the above memory buttons. The advantage is that everything is aligned horizontally.
The beginning of the dotted half note is aligned with the
beginning of the graphic line that represents it. Same for
the 16th notes. The inconvenient is that the scale of the
graphic editor is very different from beat to beat and it
makes it harder to enter music using the graphic editor, as
the width of each beat varies greatly to follow the music
notation. By activating the The inconvenient is that the graphic lines are no more
aligned with music notation. You can switch from one option
to the other, according to the type of work you are doing.
Usually, the second choice is more efficient to enter music
with the graphic editor. The staff header bar [Beginner] [Professional] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] Once you have decided which instruments to display, the rest
of the global view will display a tool bar for each instrument.
This tool bar is the following: Some of these buttons are only visible in the advanced
versions of Pizzicato. You can resize that area vertically by moving the lower
separation gray bar. You can also zoom in and out to increase
the precision level. All other areas will zoom in and out
accordingly. By resizing an area while holding down the CTRL
key, all other notation areas will be affected in the same
way. You can hide the staff and work only with other areas, as
we will see below. If you click on this icon while holding down the CTRL key,
the modification (hiding or showing the staff) is applied to
all visible instruments. You can quickly hide or show every
staves. Basically, it is the same as the one described in the
lesson on the graphic editor.
When notes are present in the staff, this editor will look
like this: Here is a summary of the operations you can do with it: If you click on the Basically, it is very similar to
the musical effect view. Here is a summary on how it
works. These sliders are represented as graphic areas. You can
click in them and adjust the value of the green area to fix
the value of the slider. These sliders and values are all
duplicates of the instrument view. When they are displayed
here, you can have an easy access to adjust these values. If you click on the You may drag and drop virtual instruments from the
Pizzicato (Professional and Composition)
music libraries to that area and you can double-click them to
edit them. With the Beginner version, you can only
see the associated instrument. You can assign virtual
instruments to the staves with the Edit, Assign
virtual instruments to staves... icon. In the Professional and Composition versions,
you can also move the limit between two virtual instruments,
simply by dragging the limit with the mouse. If you click on the
button. The global view will have
a new area to display the chords progression associated
to the score:
button, this chord area is hidden.
You can display it or hide it according to the work you are
doing in your composition. You will note that any change made
with this tool will directly affect the chord symbols
displayed inside the score itself.
button. This will open the chords
progression window, as explained in the lesson entitled The chords progression window.
button (the harmonic space editor
window appears) or delete it with a SHIFT + click on the same
button.
button to display the associated
scales and you will see the following (keep the chords
area also visible):
button. An additional area is
displayed. It is the marker and measure number area:
button. An additional area is
displayed. It is now empty, but this is where you can add
audio tracks that will be played together with the score:
button to display the audio
tracks while holding down the CTRL key, Pizzicato
will display the content of the audio tracks.
button is a shortcut to note
coloring according to the current scales and chords. When
switched on, all notes of the score will be displayed in
green if they are part of the current chord, in orange if
they are part of the scale or in red otherwise.
button. You will see a dialog
with the list of all instruments. By default in the
global view, all instrument staves are visible. In the
above example, you have 4 staves. With this dialog, you
can decide which staff is visible in the global view:
are used in relation to the
musical effects areas, as we will see them further in
this lesson. They enable respectively the display of
effects from the MIDI tracks and/or from the graphic
symbols added in the score (nuances, crescendo,...). See
the lesson on the musical effects
view.
icon is used to call the
instruments view, in the configuration where you can
define the MIDI instruments. It is a shortcut to calling
the Edit menu, Instruments item, and
choosing the Instruments configuration.
series of icons is used as a set
of 10 memories. By default, the first memory is active.
icon is used to display the
graphic editor and the effects lanes in two different
ways. The first one (by default) is to align the graphic
editor and the effects on the beats as they are in the
music notation of the measures. Here is an example:
icon, Pizzicato disconnects the two
scales and the graphic editor displays a fixed and regular
scale:
determines the
precision and the Tuplet ratio (for instance for a
triplet, it is 3 / 2). used in the graphic editor. They
correspond to the options that are available in the graphic editor.
icon is active. It means that the
staff of the instrument is displayed in music notation,
just below the tool bar. In this music notation area, you
can use every Pizzicato tool that can be used in the
linear or page view (except the page setup tools). You
can enter the notes and edit your music in this area.
icon. Zoom in at 150 %. The
graphical note editor is displayed for that instrument:
icon while holding down the CTRL key,
the modification (hiding or showing the graphic view) is
applied to all visible instruments.
icon to display the first effect
area. By default, this effect displays the velocity of
the notes. Add a few notes in the score to have for
instance:
icon, a dialog lets you
select the effect you want to edit. By
double-clicking the icon while holding down the CTRL
key, the effect selection will be applied to all
visible instruments.
icons, you hide/show that
effect. If you click it while holding down the CTRL
key, you hide/show that effect for all visible
instruments.
icon to display the slider area:
icon while holding down the CTRL key,
the modification (hiding or showing the sliders) is applied
to all visible instruments.
icon to display the virtual
instruments. This area is by default gray if no virtual
instruments are associated to the score, but when some
instruments are present, it looks like this:
icon while holding down the CTRL key,
the modification (hiding or showing the virtual instruments)
is applied to all visible instruments.
icon simply calls the dialog of
the characteristics of a staff. You can adjust the
measure numbers, the staff lines, the brackets, the
guitar tablature and many other specifications. See the
lesson on the staves
characteristics.
are duplicates of some useful
columns of the instruments view.
Here is a list of their meanings (from left to right):