Staff Text or System Text is invaluable as general purpose text. To apply to the score, use one of the following methods:
This will create an empty bounding box for text entry. Press Esc or click on an empty space outside the box to exit.
Apart from their indicative use, staff and system text also have optional playback properties: see below.
Summary of differences:
Text style | Applies to? | Playback (if applicable) | Appears in Instrument parts? |
---|---|---|---|
Staff text | Staff only | Staff only | Staff instrument only |
System Text | All system staves | All system staves | All instruments |
Staff Text is applied to one staff (or Grand staff) in the score, and is indicative only for that staff; any playback effect associated with the text is limited in the same way. The text will appear in the corresponding instrument part.
If you choose to hide empty staves, any staff text belonging to an empty staff will also be hidden.
Staff text can, for example, be used to apply indications such as Solo or Pizzicato to one staff in a score. Depending on what the instructions of the staff text are, MIDI playback of that staff at the text location can be altered to match the instructions by right-clicking on the staff text and selecting Staff Text Properties…
. See Mid-staff sound change.
To access Change channel, Swing Settings, and Capo Settings, use any of the following:
System text is applied to one staff in the score, but is indicative for every staff in the system. Any associated playback properties are applied to the whole system. The text will appear in all instrument parts.
System text is never hidden by the hide empty staves feature.
To add or edit Swing: