snare and cross-stick on the same line), you can cycle through those tracks by repeatedly clicking on the note or pressing space. If you are entering a note on a staff line that depicts several drum tracks (e.g. To place the note, click the left mouse button or press the space bar. When you hover the mouse over a bar in the editor pane, Aered displays a preview of what the music will look like if you place a note at this location. The Mac version also allows two-finger scrolling gestures to be used on the trackpad. You can then scroll the staff by clicking and dragging with the left mouse button. When the mouse cursor is above or below the staff, it will transform into a scrolling symbol. You can navigate between bars by clicking the arrow buttons on the right of the separation bar ( Cf. It is located in the bottom half of the window and displays all bars of music laid out one after another as a continuous scroll-able staff. The editor pane is where you place and edit the notes that comprise your score. Clicking this button again (or pressing E) will restore the bar to its previous location, revealing the editor pane. The rightmost button on the separation bar lets you move the bar to the bottom of the window, making the layout pane use all the space. The right set pertains to the editor pane. The left set pertains to the layout pane. This separation bar contains two sets of buttons on the left and right. The editor and layout panes are separated by a bar 4 that you can drag vertically to adjust the size of both panes.

3 The side menu gives you access to general operations such as opening and saving documents, undoing changes, adjusting preferences, etc.

2 The layout pane provides a preview of the final typeset music and allows you to adjust formatting and add text.

1 The editor pane is where you edit your music notation.

OverviewĪered’s interface is divided into three main areas: Note for Mac users: any appearances of Ctrl below should be treated as the Cmd key on a Mac keyboard. In Aered, you can view a summary of the information contained here as an overlay onto the interface by pressing F2.

In the event that you can’t find what you are looking for here, you can ask a question on the forums. This is the online manual for Aered, the sheet music editor for drummers.

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