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Frequently Asked Questions
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Accompaniment generated with the composition libraries
Adding pages or systems?
Aligning lyrics
Freely aligning staves and systems on a page
Adjusting the frame of the graphic copy
Percussion maps
The "P" and "S" boxes
French or international note/chord names
How can you stop the Octava (8va) effect?
How can you change the Pizzicato working mode?
How to convert a Pizzicato file into a ".WAV" audio file ?
How to create a pickup measure ?
How can you play the written chords?
How do you number measures not starting from "1" ?
Print preview of the score
How to make jazz play more natural? (Beginner and Professional versions)
How do you extend the line associated to a repeat sign over several staves ?
MIDI input setup (Version 2)
Volume control : limits imposed by MIDI channels
Copying lyrics from one line to another
Copy/Paste/Drag and drop
Volume or velocity crescendo ?
Creating an effective crescendo with Pizzicato Light and Beginner...
Creating a page for free music writing
Create scores larger than the A4 paper format
Truncated dialogs on Windows XP
Musical dictation with Pizzicato
Distance between the staves
16th notes in short notation
Specifying the colors of notes
Exchanging Pizzicato files between Mac and PC
Exchanging scores between various versions of Pizzicato
Encoding notes with Pizzicato
Encoding notes without stems in a measure - free measures
Enharmonic
Recording several voices on the same staff
Extracting parts with Pizzicato Beginner
MIDI file impossible to transcribe in a legible way?
Beams management
Generating arpeggios with the composition tools
Controlling the tempo
Printing a score in a different format than A4
Print your Pizzicato scores in PDF files
Adding the fingering marks
Percussion notation
The scrolling score view
The width of a measure
The baroque tools on Macintosh
Rhythmic voices
Modifying a tempo symbol
Moving tools between palettes
Methodology to create a score
Don't loose your personal tools, save them!
Personal code number... Summary!
No sound (version 2) ?
One line staves
Problem with notes and musical symbols display?
Aligning a system on a page
Crash with Windows XP ?
Creating a split measure
Splitting the right and left hands for the piano
MIDI synchronization
Selecting the measures to play
How to transcribe the accidentals correctly?
Transposing a score
Another music font?
Using templates
Using of the computer keyboard to enter notes
Using a non MIDI instrument with Pizzicato ?
Delete a note or symbol
Modifying the page layout
Dialog box or tool help
Scan a score and modify it in Pizzicato
Generate score - MIDI Files?
Slowness while working on a large Pizzicato score?
Vertical Tuplets alignement
The new conductor view of Pizzicato
Creating a dynamic pause
Creative use of an external MIDI keyboard
Unison : how to write 2 identical notes for different voices
Moving a tool
Pianistic notation: cross staff beaming
Installing a Pizzicato upgrade on Mac OS X or Windows
Share Pizzicato scores with others and on the Internet
Accessing the Pizzicato 3 Help Menu on Windows
Problem with MIDI input or with the screen keyboard?
Printing your scores on A3 paper format
Encoding notes with the MIDI cursor and the keyboard
Creating a dotted bar line
Unexpected chord symbol moving?
MIDI input setup (Version 3)
Pizzicato exits without warning after a few minutes?
No sound (version 3) ?
Pizzicato 3 and Windows VISTA
Pizzicato 2 and Windows VISTA
Assigning colors to the notes
Using the metronome - Pizzicato 3.3
Reduced scores size - Pizzicato Beginner 3.3
Upbeats and uncomplete measures - Pizzicato 3.3
Adding the figured bass symbols
Transition from Pizzicato 3.2 to 3.3
To export in audio with Windows Vista
MIDI Yoke installation under Windows Vista

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Choir |

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Guitar |

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Keyboard |

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Soloist |

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Drums and Percussion |

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Composition Light |

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Beginner |

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Notation |

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Composition Pro |

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