Did you know...

• the green button takes you back to the default situation
• the tutorial is meant to get you up and running as quick as possible
• visual help will get you fast to the necessary help topic
• layout templates are designed to take care for layout tasks
• MusiCAD has lots of features to help you make your own arrangements
• pictures can be used in headers and sections
• That you can 'pin' often used edit menu's using the pin button.
• MusiCAD files consist of plain text and can be edited as such.
• You can save your work in a number of ways (MIDI, abc, xml and of course mc).
• MusiCAD without license does not impose any time or size limits and lets you even save and print your work (although a license will remove the inconveniences you will encounter...)
• you can use MusiCAD without license as long as you accept some inconveniences that were built in on purpose...
• <alt-backspace> or <ctrl-z> will undo the last change
• you can hide chord symbols and/or text without removing them by setting their text-size to 0
• <n> will recalculate the score and rewrite the screen
• <insert> will add notes to the current stick
• you can rearrange the button-bar to your own taste (and screen-width)
• <F12> will take you to the edit-area and back.
• <F3> is the shortcut for the score-menu where you can use the mouse to drag parts to their position.
• the tool-button in the score-menu allows for useful part-wise modifications
• <F5>, <F6>, <F7> and <F8> are most useful when entering notes (see tutorial in help)
• most likely the use of arrow-keys <>, <> and <Enter> will be the the fastest way to enter music.
• <Tab> will take you to the next staff during edit (<shift-Tab> one staff backward)
• that the mixer is the easiest way to balance the parts volumes (and stereo panning) - during play as well.
• <+> and <-> will alter the tempo during play.
• the use of cue-markers enables you to play from the corresponding marker by just pressing the letter.
• you can add your own layout templates.
• these texts reside in TIPS_EN.TXT and can be altered (we are very much interested in your tips)