Instruction Manual - Pizzicato 3.6.2 EN012 - Table of Contents

Table of Contents - Pizzicato Choir

Computer Help - Music Course - Pizzicato User Manual - Progressive Study Program

Glossary of music and computer terms - Index


Computer help

The mouse

What is the mouse? - Buttons of the mouse - Pointing - Clicking - Double-clicking - Clicking/dragging

The computer and its interface (1)

What is a computer? - Communicating with a computer - The screen and windows - Menus - Dialog boxes

The computer and its interface (2)

Buttons - Check boxes - Radio buttons - Popup menus - Scroll bars - Sliders - Lists

The computer and its interface (3)

Using the keyboard - Text boxes

Using help

What is help? - The help menu - How to use help? - Reaching contextual help


Music Course

Introduction to the music course

The purpose of this course - Material needed - How to use this course?

Music notation

What is music? - Characteristics of a sound - Music notation - The staff - The measure - Summary

Musical notation examples

Note pitch - example - What is a clef? - Note duration - example - Instrument timbre - example - Note amplitude - example

Notes and rests

The name and position of notes - Rhythmic values of notes - Rests - Summary

Characteristics of music notation (1)

Note stems - Beams - More than one rhythmic voice

Characteristics of music notation (2)

Chords - Dotted notes and rests - Ties

The scale and the accidentals

The scale and the musical keyboard - Tones and half tones - The sharp and the flat - The natural - The double sharp and the double flat

Tuplets

Triplets - Other tuplets

Using clefs

Octaves numbering - Using the bass clef - The instrument range - Other clefs - Writing conventions

Characteristics of music notation (3)

Braces and groups of staves - Measure numbering and rehearsal marks - Special staves

The time signature

Using time signature - Composite time signature - Conventions and examples

Key signatures

The major scale of C - Tonality - The major scales - The minor scales - Arbitrary key signatures

MIDI

The purpose of MIDI - MIDI messages - MIDI channels

Transposition

Transposition - Intervals - Diatonic and chromatic transposition

The main symbols

Why add symbols? - Nuances - Tempo markings - Ornament - Other various symbols

Bar lines and repeats

The various bar lines - Repeats - Other repeat signs

Learning the musical keyboard

How to learn the keyboard with Pizzicato? - Organizing the screen - Progressive exercises generator - Listening to the exercise and learning how to play it - Fingering - Sounds - Learning progression - Learning to play with an accompaniment


Pizzicato User Manual

Introduction To Pizzicato

Versions of Pizzicato - The user manual of Pizzicato - Goals of Pizzicato

Installing Pizzicato

Installing Pizzicato - Starting Pizzicato - License registration - Exit Pizzicato

What's new in version 3.6

Pizzicato Light 3.6 - Pizzicato Beginner 3.6 - Pizzicato Professional 3.6 - 8 new Pizzicato versions in 3.6

MIDI Setup

What is MIDI? - MIDI configuration - Select a synthesizer

Handling documents and windows (1)

What is a document? - The document manager - Opening and creation of a document - Opening several documents at the same time

Handling documents and windows (2)

Handling musical documents - The various Pizzicato windows - The score view and the global view - The instruments view - The sequencer view - The piano roll view - The graphic view - The musical effects view - Association of a comment - The scrolling score view - The lyrics window - The chord progression window - The main view and the conductor view - The windows management modes

Measures and staves (1)

The measures and staves tool - Adding and deleting measures and staves - The linear mode - Creating a score in linear mode

Measures and staves (2)

How to move a staff? - How to modify the width of a measure?

Introduction of notes and rests (1)

How to introduce notes and rests? - How to delete a note or a rest? - How to move a note or a rest? - How to select tools with the keyboard? - Automatic justification

Introduction of notes and rests (2)

How to modify the stems orientation? - How to modify the beams?

Introduction of notes and rests (3)

Introducing chords - Dotted notes and rests - Changing the note head - Reducing notes

Introduction of notes and rests (4)

Placement of accidentals - Position of an accidental - Ties - Adjustment of the stem length - Rhythmic voices

Entering notes with a music keyboard

The keyboard window - How you can introduce notes with the keyboard?

The music typing keyboard

Entering music faster - Notes and rhythm - Other aspects of entering music - Additional functions

Introduction of notes and rests (5)

Adding triplets and tuplets - The enharmonic tool - Insert mode

Using the arrow tool

Using the arrow tool - Deleting with the arrow tool - Optimal use of tools

Alternative notation

What is alternative notation? - Displaying alternative notation in Pizzicato - Creating a new score - Entering the music - Lyrics - Adjusting the page layout - Text blocks - Music symbols - Defining the alternative notation configurations

Graphic note entry tool on the staff

Graphic note entry tool - Intuitive chords entry - Viewing note colors according to chords

Using clefs

Changing the clef - Clef characteristics

Characteristics of staves

Changing the staff names - Characteristics of staves - Braces and brackets - Measure numbers - Miscellaneous - Lines, size and drums map

The document manager

Configurations - Customizing the displayed folders - Files and folders operations - Adding configurations and areas

Using templates

What is a template? - Pizzicato Light and specialized versions - Pizzicato Beginner - Pizzicato Pro, Notation and Composition

Automatic saving and backup

Automatic saving - Automatic backups - Restoring a backup

Changing the time signature

Changing the rhythmic content of a measure - Up beat and incomplete measures

Using key signatures

Selecting a key signature - Changing the key signature during a music work - Arbitrary key signatures - Exercises

Selecting measures

What is a selection? - Copy and paste - Selecting several measures - Partial selection of measures

Working in the sequencer and main views

Selecting measures - Adding/deleting measures and staves - Creating and handling scores

Measure parameters

Time and key signatures indication - Measures numbering - Multimeasure rests - Free measures - Justification and staff lines

The instruments view

The instruments view - Elements of the instruments view - Modifying the staves order

The scrolling score view

The scrolling score view - Control of the scrolling score view - How could you learn playing the keyboard ?

Global options and graphic copy

Basic global options - Advanced global options - Graphic copy - Additional options

Real time recording (1)

Real time recording - The recorder and its options - Start recording from the musical keyboard - MIDI play options

Real time recording (2)

Tracks and staves - Transcription - Quantization - Recording multiple voices - Correcting the notes

Transposing and justifying measures

Transposing measures - Justifying measures - Justification options

Page layout

What is page layout? - Page setup structure in Pizzicato - Page layout dialog box - Page contextual menu - Modifying the layout of measures and systems - Printing the score - Show or hide the staves of a system

Measures versions

Measures versions - Duplicate / delete a version

Graphic and MIDI symbols

Palettes, tools and symbols - Adding a symbol in the score - Erasing a symbol - Moving or resizing a symbol

The text tool

Creation of a text block - Moving, modifying and erasing a text block - Adding a title / Page numbers

Bar lines and repeats

Modifying bar lines - Simulation of repeats

Lyrics

Introduction of lyrics in the score - Connecting or extending syllables - Adjusting the position of lyrics lines - Note names - The lyrics fast encoding window

The chords library

Consulting the library - Modifying the symbols - Modifying the library

The chord tool

Adding, moving and erasing chords on the score - Adjusting chords globally - Converting chords into notes

The use of rhythmic voices and colors

Rhythmic voices - Using rhythmic voices - Using colors - Making a note or a rest invisible

Graphic options and automatisms

Graphic options - Automatisms

Reading and writing Midi files

The Midi file - Exporting a Midi file - Importing a Midi file

MusicXML, NIFF and PDF files

What is a MusicXML file ? - Import a MusicXML or NIFF file in Pizzicato - Export a score in MusicXML - Export to PDF

Contextual menus and MIDI data modification

Contextual menu of a note - Contextual menu of a measures selection - Modification of MIDI data

The musical effects view

Musical effects - The musical effects view - Modifying the symbol effects - Creating free musical effects

The graphic editor

The graphic note editor view - The use of colours - Composing drum patterns

Modifying a symbol locally

Local modifications - Examples of local modifications

Composition tools - Rhythmic variations

Purpose of this tool - Using the rhythmic variations tool

Audio tracks

Audio or MIDI? - What is an audio track? - Adding an audio track - Multiple audio tracks - Audio setup - Using an ASIO driver

Creating an audio file

Export a score to an audio file

The audio editor

Accessing the audio editor - The various parts of the audio window - Specifying the file area to play - Selecting the working area - Modifying the selected area - Zooming - File operations - Recording an audio file - Modifying the wave directly - Miscellaneous options of the editor

The virtual instruments

What is a virtual instrument? - Using the virtual instruments - The virtual instruments library - Importing SoundFont files - Tuning

The audio/Midi/Score window

The purpose of the audio/midi/score window - Audio conversion - Example 1 - Guitar - Audio conversion - Example 2 - Guitar - Audio conversion - Example 3 - Flute - Audio conversion - Example 4 - Piano - Audio conversion - Example 5 - Polyphony - Importing a MIDI file - Selection of an audio or MIDI section - Conversion parameters


Progressive Study Program

Introduction To Pizzicato

Versions of Pizzicato - The user manual of Pizzicato - Goals of Pizzicato

The mouse

What is the mouse? - Buttons of the mouse - Pointing - Clicking - Double-clicking - Clicking/dragging

Installing Pizzicato

Installing Pizzicato - Starting Pizzicato - License registration - Exit Pizzicato

The computer and its interface (1)

What is a computer? - Communicating with a computer - The screen and windows - Menus - Dialog boxes

The computer and its interface (2)

Buttons - Check boxes - Radio buttons - Popup menus - Scroll bars - Sliders - Lists

The computer and its interface (3)

Using the keyboard - Text boxes

Using help

What is help? - The help menu - How to use help? - Reaching contextual help

What's new in version 3.6

Pizzicato Light 3.6 - Pizzicato Beginner 3.6 - Pizzicato Professional 3.6 - 8 new Pizzicato versions in 3.6

MIDI Setup

What is MIDI? - MIDI configuration - Select a synthesizer

Introduction to the music course

The purpose of this course - Material needed - How to use this course?

Music notation

What is music? - Characteristics of a sound - Music notation - The staff - The measure - Summary

Handling documents and windows (1)

What is a document? - The document manager - Opening and creation of a document - Opening several documents at the same time

Musical notation examples

Note pitch - example - What is a clef? - Note duration - example - Instrument timbre - example - Note amplitude - example

Handling documents and windows (2)

Handling musical documents - The various Pizzicato windows - The score view and the global view - The instruments view - The sequencer view - The piano roll view - The graphic view - The musical effects view - Association of a comment - The scrolling score view - The lyrics window - The chord progression window - The main view and the conductor view - The windows management modes

Measures and staves (1)

The measures and staves tool - Adding and deleting measures and staves - The linear mode - Creating a score in linear mode

Measures and staves (2)

How to move a staff? - How to modify the width of a measure?

Notes and rests

The name and position of notes - Rhythmic values of notes - Rests - Summary

Introduction of notes and rests (1)

How to introduce notes and rests? - How to delete a note or a rest? - How to move a note or a rest? - How to select tools with the keyboard? - Automatic justification

Characteristics of music notation (1)

Note stems - Beams - More than one rhythmic voice

Introduction of notes and rests (2)

How to modify the stems orientation? - How to modify the beams?

Characteristics of music notation (2)

Chords - Dotted notes and rests - Ties

Introduction of notes and rests (3)

Introducing chords - Dotted notes and rests - Changing the note head - Reducing notes

The scale and the accidentals

The scale and the musical keyboard - Tones and half tones - The sharp and the flat - The natural - The double sharp and the double flat

Introduction of notes and rests (4)

Placement of accidentals - Position of an accidental - Ties - Adjustment of the stem length - Rhythmic voices

Entering notes with a music keyboard

The keyboard window - How you can introduce notes with the keyboard?

The music typing keyboard

Entering music faster - Notes and rhythm - Other aspects of entering music - Additional functions

Tuplets

Triplets - Other tuplets

Introduction of notes and rests (5)

Adding triplets and tuplets - The enharmonic tool - Insert mode

Using the arrow tool

Using the arrow tool - Deleting with the arrow tool - Optimal use of tools

Alternative notation

What is alternative notation? - Displaying alternative notation in Pizzicato - Creating a new score - Entering the music - Lyrics - Adjusting the page layout - Text blocks - Music symbols - Defining the alternative notation configurations

Graphic note entry tool on the staff

Graphic note entry tool - Intuitive chords entry - Viewing note colors according to chords

Using clefs

Octaves numbering - Using the bass clef - The instrument range - Other clefs - Writing conventions

Using clefs

Changing the clef - Clef characteristics

Characteristics of music notation (3)

Braces and groups of staves - Measure numbering and rehearsal marks - Special staves

Characteristics of staves

Changing the staff names - Characteristics of staves - Braces and brackets - Measure numbers - Miscellaneous - Lines, size and drums map

The document manager

Configurations - Customizing the displayed folders - Files and folders operations - Adding configurations and areas

Using templates

What is a template? - Pizzicato Light and specialized versions - Pizzicato Beginner - Pizzicato Pro, Notation and Composition

Automatic saving and backup

Automatic saving - Automatic backups - Restoring a backup

The time signature

Using time signature - Composite time signature - Conventions and examples

Changing the time signature

Changing the rhythmic content of a measure - Up beat and incomplete measures

Key signatures

The major scale of C - Tonality - The major scales - The minor scales - Arbitrary key signatures

Using key signatures

Selecting a key signature - Changing the key signature during a music work - Arbitrary key signatures - Exercises

Selecting measures

What is a selection? - Copy and paste - Selecting several measures - Partial selection of measures

Working in the sequencer and main views

Selecting measures - Adding/deleting measures and staves - Creating and handling scores

Measure parameters

Time and key signatures indication - Measures numbering - Multimeasure rests - Free measures - Justification and staff lines

MIDI

The purpose of MIDI - MIDI messages - MIDI channels

The instruments view

The instruments view - Elements of the instruments view - Modifying the staves order

The scrolling score view

The scrolling score view - Control of the scrolling score view - How could you learn playing the keyboard ?

Global options and graphic copy

Basic global options - Advanced global options - Graphic copy - Additional options

Real time recording (1)

Real time recording - The recorder and its options - Start recording from the musical keyboard - MIDI play options

Real time recording (2)

Tracks and staves - Transcription - Quantization - Recording multiple voices - Correcting the notes

Transposition

Transposition - Intervals - Diatonic and chromatic transposition

Transposing and justifying measures

Transposing measures - Justifying measures - Justification options

Page layout

What is page layout? - Page setup structure in Pizzicato - Page layout dialog box - Page contextual menu - Modifying the layout of measures and systems - Printing the score - Show or hide the staves of a system

Measures versions

Measures versions - Duplicate / delete a version

The main symbols

Why add symbols? - Nuances - Tempo markings - Ornament - Other various symbols

Graphic and MIDI symbols

Palettes, tools and symbols - Adding a symbol in the score - Erasing a symbol - Moving or resizing a symbol

The text tool

Creation of a text block - Moving, modifying and erasing a text block - Adding a title / Page numbers

Bar lines and repeats

The various bar lines - Repeats - Other repeat signs

Bar lines and repeats

Modifying bar lines - Simulation of repeats

Lyrics

Introduction of lyrics in the score - Connecting or extending syllables - Adjusting the position of lyrics lines - Note names - The lyrics fast encoding window

The chords library

Consulting the library - Modifying the symbols - Modifying the library

The chord tool

Adding, moving and erasing chords on the score - Adjusting chords globally - Converting chords into notes

The use of rhythmic voices and colors

Rhythmic voices - Using rhythmic voices - Using colors - Making a note or a rest invisible

Graphic options and automatisms

Graphic options - Automatisms

Reading and writing Midi files

The Midi file - Exporting a Midi file - Importing a Midi file

MusicXML, NIFF and PDF files

What is a MusicXML file ? - Import a MusicXML or NIFF file in Pizzicato - Export a score in MusicXML - Export to PDF

Contextual menus and MIDI data modification

Contextual menu of a note - Contextual menu of a measures selection - Modification of MIDI data

The musical effects view

Musical effects - The musical effects view - Modifying the symbol effects - Creating free musical effects

The graphic editor

The graphic note editor view - The use of colours - Composing drum patterns

Modifying a symbol locally

Local modifications - Examples of local modifications

Learning the musical keyboard

How to learn the keyboard with Pizzicato? - Organizing the screen - Progressive exercises generator - Listening to the exercise and learning how to play it - Fingering - Sounds - Learning progression - Learning to play with an accompaniment

Composition tools - Rhythmic variations

Purpose of this tool - Using the rhythmic variations tool

Audio tracks

Audio or MIDI? - What is an audio track? - Adding an audio track - Multiple audio tracks - Audio setup - Using an ASIO driver

Creating an audio file

Export a score to an audio file

The audio editor

Accessing the audio editor - The various parts of the audio window - Specifying the file area to play - Selecting the working area - Modifying the selected area - Zooming - File operations - Recording an audio file - Modifying the wave directly - Miscellaneous options of the editor

The virtual instruments

What is a virtual instrument? - Using the virtual instruments - The virtual instruments library - Importing SoundFont files - Tuning

The audio/Midi/Score window

The purpose of the audio/midi/score window - Audio conversion - Example 1 - Guitar - Audio conversion - Example 2 - Guitar - Audio conversion - Example 3 - Flute - Audio conversion - Example 4 - Piano - Audio conversion - Example 5 - Polyphony - Importing a MIDI file - Selection of an audio or MIDI section - Conversion parameters