Title: SipInput User Guide Author: Jan de Kloe Date: April 1, 2003
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1. Hence from 1 to 9 bars can be entered When this is done a grid is displayed with the first bar in red to indicate the current one You are now in positioning mode and the mouse pointer will point to the grid Positioning mode Positioning from one bar to another walking through the input can be done in several ways arrow keys to adjacent bar Home key to the first bar of the top voice End key to the last bar of the top voice Left mouse button to the pointed bar Each box in the grid gets a value which represents the number of notes in that bar A blank means that the bar is all rest s Note that full measure rests are assumed if no input was done in a bar When in positioning mode there are some other commands available k trigger the generation of signatures trigger between visual default or audible error notification w show the mouse click delay x terminate the program Enter key change to edit mode Middle mouse button change to edit mode Right mouse button copy the current bar to the bar pointed to show a list of commands in positioning mode Edit mode You get to edit mode by the Enter key or the middle mouse button In Edit mode you can edit one voice of one bar only In order to advance to the next bar you must first go back to positioning mode and immediately to edit mode again so easiest is to hit the Enter key twice during sequential input When inputting a multi voice staff it is easiest to do the upper voice f2. back then one note down Note that horizontal space has no influence on the final result 10 hit e This will position the cursor at the low E There are three of those vertical cursor positioning keys a for low A and c for high C are the others 11 hit 3 which is a quarter note You will see the cursor advance to the next position 12 hit the up arrow and the cursor will be at the F position Hit 3 again and continue doing this until you have four notes E F G A Notes just look like bullets whatever their duration On the top of the white area you see the real duration Then Enter This brings you back to the positioning area and you see the bar advance 13 Hit Enter again to edit the next bar Hit c to get to the high C Enter 4 for an eighth note descend with the arrow key and do another eighth note Then hit b This will create a beam Beams are always from the last note backwards as far as it can You will not see stem direction visualized in this stage but when generated the ordinary will be in effect If you want a rest in a beam group enter the notes and beam first then the rest 14 Hit 3 while keeping the Alt key depressed This is a quarter rest So now you are able to enter notes and rests The vertical position of rests is immaterial since it only depends on the stem direction 15 Complete the three bars at will experimenting with chords rests
3. Though not suggested it is entirely possible to update file Z Other files There is one file in the SipInput suite named SIPINPUT PAR which keeps the name of the last file processed This name is displayed in the SipInput panel as a reminder SipInput requires that there is a file SIPINPUT INI with profile information This text file is created by the Windows application The user needs not be concerned with its placement or maintenance of these two files The help file consulted by SipInput is SIPINPUT TXT The main SIP panel will disable the SipInput button when a required file is not installed Starting the editor Once you have set up the options in the two panels of the SIP Windows application of SipInput you push the Run button to get into the edit program SIPINPUT EXE This program runs in DOS and therefor has limited graphical means However with the help of arrow keys PgUp PgDn etc as well as the mouse it is fast to position input A simple exercise will demonstrate the basic features of SipInput A simple exercise Following are the steps to create a simple file 1 on the first SipInput panel check Generate signatures and Call Score Uncheck Shorten stems 2 select the key of 1 sharp and the time signature 4 4 3 set Left barline to none 4 set Barline stacking to 1 5 push Object staves 6 push the minus buttons on top to assure that you have one voice and one staf
4. beaming dots for augmentation Test the bar overflow by entering too much duration like five quarter notes Remember that notes need to be drawn before they can have dots or accidentals Accidentals are s f and n before a note Faster is to use S F and N when the cursor is after a note but you need to have an empty vertical space before the note Because the n is far from the left shift key naturals can also be made with z and Z If you need a space in between notes hit Insert Delete removes all elements vertically on the cursor position d only removes the symbol where the cursor is at 16 Terminate when in the positioning mode by hitting x This will convert file AAA001 SIP to AAAO01 SCO and file Z Then give control to Score There you do a RES Z and you will see the entered music When there are input errors you can go back to the same file and make updates otherwise you go to the next file by incrementing the number on the next execution the next Run by hitting the up arrow key That will create file AAA002 SIP You can change the name by the Replace function which prompts for a name Filename set up When the program is entered it needs to know with which file it needs to work One file corresponds to one unit of input which is a system with from 1 to 4 voices on from 1 to 4 staves as defined in the Object staves function The filename should consist
5. removes empty columns on the left C duplicate group F7 F8 range to cursor Other commands during the edit mode are trigger between visual and audible beep for errors remove beams If there are no beams then clear the bar V trigger duration validation Enter exit edit mode Mouse left button set left end same as F7 Mouse right button set right end same as F8 Ending a system When you terminate a system it is best to immediately give control to Score which SipInput will do when you set the appropriate check mark in the control panel Then you do the minor fixes in Score of those things SipInput could not do such as changing barlines to repeats and other matters which would influence pagination Then you save the system to a MUS file using the original SipInput name which is passed as a text in the system to make life easier Once you have entered all systems for a piece of music you do pagination with PAGE which can be called immediately from the SipInput control panel then do final page editing such as titles fingering lyrics endings etc When PAGE was called from the SipInput panel it will upon termination immediately show the first generated page Keep all the SIP files until your project is finished You may need to revert to them when some major omission was detected in the correction phase such as a missing system or page Erase the SIP files after completion of the project The SCO files are only useful un
6. Method 2 Enter and follow the syntax m l Bn where m defines the number of notes chords between the current note and the end note If omitted zero the first note after the current one is the end or is the direction of the slur tie If omitted Score will take a default When a bracket is desired then enter Bn for instance B3 will create a bracket with a 3 Examples 12 creates an upward slur tie to the 14 note in the same voice including the note where you are at 3 B5 makes a bracket under three notes with a 5 in there There can be only one Method 2 slur tie bracket per note chord To delete such slur tie bracket enter again Note that Method 2 slurs ties brackets are shown as marks as a combination of Bn D D n The D means direction Tuplets You can make triplets and 6 tuplets Following a group of notes enter t If the preceding group has six notes chords of equal duration it will ask if you want the 6 tuplet otherwise it will assume a triplet There can be no rests in tuplets By entering F3 you create a triplet from a quarter note and an eighth note Editing commands The following commands provide the functions one needs during editing repeat the last note and duration repeat the last column Del key delete current column d delete current symbol note rest accidental dot Ins key insert a blank column effective in front of a used column x contract bar
7. Title SipInput User Guide Author Jan de Kloe Date April 1 2003 updated January 26 2007 Version 2 0 SipInput conformity v4 08 Introduction SipInput is a primitive two dimensional music editor for Score engravers It does away with the multiple line input and is therefor quicker than the Score input mode Also it avoids the inconsistencies which could occur from line input because it dynamically checks what is input Input with SipInput is virtually free from time signature errors The output of SipInput is a text file which can be read RES immediately into Score Input is basically with keys For some functions the mouse can be used but this is optional This document tells you how to create and edit files Programs and files There are two DOS programs included in SipInput SIPINPUT EXE creates and updates files with the suffix SIP The format of such files is private and they cannot be manipulated by any other program than those of SipInput There is one such file per system A system can have from 1 to 4 voices on a maximum of 4 staves There can be from to 9 bars in a system 2 SIPC EXE converts a file with a SIP suffix to a text file with a SCO suffix The latter is readable by Score through the RES command To facilitate operation the last created SCO file is replicated to a file simply called Z The user never sees the execution of SIPC because it takes place immediately at the termination of SIPINPUT EXE
8. ecial mark named hp A next use of hp triggers the side Dynamic marks such as ppp are per default below the staff but you can trigger the side by the special mark ma This also triggers default stem side to note side for marks such as the wedge To remove a mark repeat it An asterisk shows the mark s for the current column Beams There are two ways to make beams Method 1 The automatic way is to push b on or after the last entered beamable group The beginning of the group is established automatically To force the beginning of a beamed group you can temporarily put in a rest Method 2 Another way to enter a beam group is with the minus sign First push the function key F7 at the first note chord of the group and F8 on the last note chord to define the begin and end of the beam group Then hit the Tremolo beams are made as marks for instance tm2 When you need a rest in a beam group draw the beam first then insert the rest Slurs and ties and brackets For slurs ties there are also two ways to make them Method 1 Define the beginning and end of the group with F7 and F8 then hit _ underscore This method does not allow control over the slur tie direction but SipInput assumes the slur on the note side and a tie on the stem side if it can figure out the difference There can be no overlapping Method 1 slurs ties Hitting F8 a second time has the same effect as _
9. f 7 click the Clef button until it is TR 8 click the stem direction button until it is Ordinary and keep the default staff size Then return and Run You are now in the editor which gives the following choice Filename in Parameterfile AAA001 not existing Increment UpArrow Decrement DnArrow Replace r Accept ENTER hit ENTER and the following appears Create file AAAO01 SIP Enter number of bars 1 9 O end Enter 3 because in this demo we will make a staff with three bars The next panel comes up and shows two things which we need for manipulation a three boxes which tell us that we have a single voice with three bars The red box is the bar where we are at the active bar We can walk through the bars with the arrow keys or with Home and End When the mouse pointer is in this area we are in the positioning mode b an empty music bar When we are here we are in edit mode and the mouse pointer is in this area You are either in the positioning mode or in the edit mode The Enter key changes from one to the other When terminating a bar the active bar advances until it cannot go any further 9 position to the first bar and hit Enter to get into edit mode You will see a cursor which is where notes are placed Initially it is always at the middle line You can move this cursor in four directions with the arrow keys Home End PgUp PgDn backspace back then two notes down and comma
10. ighth rest A column can have only one rest and the horizontal position is hence immaterial Alt and 9 creates a dummy which is used in combination with the b command It is represented by a cross and serves to indicate the left end of a beam The dummy rest is not written to the file Marks Marks can only be made on columns with notes not on columns with rest accidentals or augmentation dot Put the cursor on the note column then hit m Abbreviations are used for marks The abbreviations are standard Score From the following set only one can exist per note chord fif fis fin Ww a t s Ws as ts d u h fe ar th mo im hw tr trf trs trn pl f0 fl f2 f3 f4 f5 fingers The above result in a Code1 Par 11 which is why there can only be one of those at a time From the following set any number can be attached to a note chord ppp pp p mp mf f ff fff fp sf sfz cr di ri ac act pi pizz ao arco tml tm2 tm3 tm4 tremolos These translate to the common dynamic symbols You can also add a three digit value as a mark such as 112 for the Coda symbol Additional codes accepted are lvd and Ivu for LV down or up Hairpins are coded as lt n or gt n where n is the number of notes to cover 1 19 in the current voice Ottava and ottava bassa are coded as n and n where n is the number of notes to cover 1 19 in the current voice The default vertical position for hairpins is below the staff but you can force it above by a sp
11. irst then the lower voice The visualized bar is organized in 49 columns One column can contain only one type of data which is one of the following any number of notes of equal duration one rest accidentals when a note follows augmentation dot if preceded by a note or a first augmentation dot There is no relation to horizontal distances so two adjacent notes with or without empty columns in between cause the same results There can be no empty columns between notes and their accidentals or augmentation dots When an error is detected a momentary message is given By default this message is visual a purple block on the bottom but you can revert this to an audible signal by hitting in either positioning or edit mode When there is a duration error the erroneous bar is still terminated so you can ignore the error Note that when there are duration conflicts between vertical bars Score will not be able to properly visualize the generated system The cursor Input is at the location of the cursor which can be moved in four directions When opening a bar the cursor is at the first column on the middle staff line The cursor advances automatically when anything is input There are also commands which move the cursor arrow keys to adjacent pitch or column Home key to first column End key to last column Backspace key down two pitches then left one column down one pitch then left one column Space bar to the next n
12. of a meaningful alphabetical part such as HAY for Haydn and a numeric part When you are going to enter less than one hundred systems two digits are sufficient Make it a habit of always defining three letters and three digits The first file in such group is hence HAYOO1 It is imperative that the number sequence of one composition is unbroken The suffix cannot be defined since it will automatically be SIP and SCO for the two files being output by one program execution A filename can be an existing one in which case you can make updates It will always tell you if the file exists On terminating the program the SIP file is then updated it is a random access file and the SCO file is overwritten by a new version it is an ASCII text file Initially there is no filename in which case a default is assumed of AAAO01 Filename in Parameterfile AAA001 not existing Increment UpArrow Decrement DnArrow Replace r Accept ENTER To create HAY0O1 push the r to replace the name The effect of the up arrow and down arrow would be to adapt the numeric part Normally you will bump the number to make HAY002 for the next system and so on Once the filename is defined the number of bars you are going to enter needs to be provided Make it a habit of giving as many bars as your manuscript system Note that once you defined this number it can no longer be modified Create file HAY001 SIP Enter number of bars 1 9 O end
13. ote down or right PgUp key one octave up PgDn one octave down e to lowest E a to lowest A c to highest C Notes Enter a note as a digit The duration of a note is defined by the value 0 double 1 whole 2 half 3 quarter 4 eighth 5 16 6 32 7 64 8 128 9 grace Notes appear on the screen as filled bullets with on top the visual duration always with stems up The actual stem side depends on the option for the current voice which is either up down or ordinary A column can have any number of notes Notes a second apart are not offset Notes can have accidentals and up to two augmentation dots Accidentals can only be input when the note exists Make sure that there is an empty column in front of the note when you enter accidentals Fastest is to use capital letters when the cursor is immediately after the note You can use lower case letters but the cursor needs to be immediately in front of the note then sS sharp fF flat nNzZ natural You cannot make other accidentals so make a sharp if you need a double sharp and replace it in Score Augmentation dots can only be defined when there is a note or a chord The cursor must be in the column immediately following the note or chord The vertical position of the cursor is immaterial and only one dot needs to be specified for all notes to receive the augmentation dot s Rests Hold the Alt key and push a note key for a rest so Alt and 4 cause an e
14. til you make the MUS file so these can be deleted after pagination The end
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