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1.1 Note input
merging it with any notes that may already be in that voice To add a time signature in the course of creating notes, type T and choose it from the dialog,
then hit Return or click OK to create it at the beginning of the next bar To add a key change, type K and choose the required key signature from the dialog, then hit Return or click OK to create it in your score directly after the current note To add text, type the usual shortcut (e.g. Ctrl+E or E for Expression text), then type the required text; type Esc to go back to creating notes. Text is created at its default position above or below the staff, at the same horizontal position as the note that was selected before creating it. You can also add any other object from the Create menu during note input. Symbols and chord diagrams, for example, all appear at their default position above or below the staff at the same horizontal position as the selected note. For lines (especially slurs and hairpins), it’s only practical to input ones lasting for two notes without stopping note input temporarily; this is because the right-hand end of the line needs a note to attach to, and you typically won’t have entered that note yet. Hence it’s usually easiest to go back and add lines after inputting a phrase or so of notes. Esc terminates note input (the caret disappears).
Mouse input Mouse input is essentially the same as step-time and alphabetic input, except that there should be nothing selected before you start (hit Esc to deselect): Choose Notes Input Notes (shortcut N); the mouse pointer changes color (typically it goes
dark blue, to denote voice 1) Choose a note value from the first Keypad layout; you can also choose accidentals, articulations etc. from other Keypad layouts (see above). To create a rest, choose the rest button from the first layout. As you move the pointer over the score, a gray shadow note appears, to show where the note will be created when you click. As you move the pointer vertically over the staff, leger lines are drawn as necessary; as you move horizontally through the bar, the shadow note snaps to the different beats of the bar (this behavior is configurable – see Note input options below). Usefully, the shadow note also shows the notehead type of the note you’re about to create. To input the note, simply click where you want to create it A caret (a vertical line) appears in the score to the right of the note you just created – if you like, you could now start creating notes in step-time or using alphabetic input, but to continue adding notes with the mouse, simply continue clicking in the score to create more notes, changing the note value and other properties of the note on the Keypad when necessary. To build up a chord, simply click above or below the note you just created. If you create a note elsewhere in the bar, then go back and click above or below an existing note to try and make a chord, Sibelius will delete whatever was there before and create a new note at that position. If you input a long note at the start of a bar, and then add a note later in the bar, before the end of the long note at the start of the bar, Sibelius will replace the first note with rests by default, but 11
Inputting
You can swap the selected note(s) into another voice by typing Alt+1/2/3/4 or 1/2/3/4; so you could select one note of a chord in voice 1 and, say, type Alt+2 or 2 to move it into voice 2,