Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 115)

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There are three main editing tools on the Score Editor toolbar:
 Arrow Tool
Used for note selection, moving, and editing note durations. It can be selected
with the keyboard shortcut Q.
 Pencil Tool
Used for drawing new notes on the staff. It can be selected with the keyboard
shortcut W.
 Eraser Tool
Clicking notes with the eraser tool removes them from the staff. It can be
selected with the keyboard shortcut E.
 Note Duration Buttons
These work in conjunction with the pencil tool when drawing in new notes in
the grid. Choose whole-note, half-note, quarter-note, eighth-note, sixteenth-
note, and thirty-second note values. You can also select the dotted and triplet
node modifiers for converting standard note values to dotted and triplet values,
respectively.
 Default Velocity
Specifies the velocity for new notes drawn in with the pencil tool.
 Snap Value
Determines the minimum note value that notes will snap to when creating new
notes, moving pre-existing notes, and moving loop markers. Dependent upon
the current zoom view level, Snap To Grid setting automatically changes the
snap value to the current grid size. This setting works well in most situations.
If you’re working on a track with a three-count based time signature, use the
Snap To Grid (Triplets) settings.
 Tidy Notes
Since a performance won’t always present itself as nicely as printed sheet music,
Tidy Notes attempts to clean upthe dispplay of recorded note data.
For example, if you played a quarter-note but shortened the note by a 32nd note
duration, the software would show a dotted 8th-note tied to a 32nd-note with a
32nd-note rest. Yikes... this would look like the following: