The Common Context Menu

The Common Context Menu

The Common Context Menu will facilitate many actions in ScanScore a lot. Right click anywhere in the scan view to open it.

Set Volta Brackets

See Barlines and Repeats.

Metronome Mark ...

Click "Metronome Mark". The cursor will look like a hand. With this hand, click on the position of the desired tempo change. Now, you see the dialog for inserting the tempo change. You can also add a text instructions here. Note that changing the tempo will also affect the playback speed!

Change Key Signature, Time Signature, Tempo

See Organize Menu.

Tuplet Settings...

See Notes Menu.

Organize Staves

Here you can connect or disconnect staves.

Text

Here you can add text elements: Title, Subtitle, Composer name or lyrics.

Switch to voice...

Lets you select a different voice for editing. This is helpful when your score features many voices and you want to focus on one of them. See Working with Voices.

Change Voice

Lets you move selected notes into another voice (1 to 8). See Working with Voices.

Change to...

(Only visible when a text element is selected.)

Changes text elements to another text type. If for example chord symbols were recognized as lyrics, you can select multiple text elements with held Ctrl key and then change the type and the anchoring. This way the chord symbols also change when you transpose.