Notation and lyrics

This section describes three SONAR views that are used to edit the music notation and lyrics of your project.

SONAR’s Staff view lets you work with your composition in a standard musical staff, guitar tablature and a virtual guitar fretboard. You can add, move, and delete notes with your mouse or with your computer keyboard. You can add chord names, guitar chord grids, expression marks, hairpin symbols, pedal marks, and lyrics. And you can print professional-quality notation of a complete arrangement or individual parts, with up to 24 staves per page.

The Meter/Key view lets you view, insert, and edit meter and key changes at any measure boundary in the project.

The Lyrics view lets you edit a track’s lyrics, and can be used to cue you with the lyrics during playback or recording.

 

See:

The Staff view

Basic musical editing

Chords and marks

Tablature

Working with percussion

Printing

Export to MusicXML (Producer only)

The Meter/Key view

Working with lyrics