Moving, copying, and deleting notes on the staff

Selections can be cut, copied, pasted, and deleted with Edit menu commands. The techniques are similar to those used in other views. Selections can also be dragged and dropped to copy or move them. To keep track of your current position while dragging, you can keep an eye on the time and pitch locator in the upper-right corner of the Staff view.

Notes can be dragged horizontally, to a new time, or vertically, to a new pitch or staff. When you drag a note up or down to a new pitch, the note normally snaps to the notes in the current key signature (diatonic scale). This makes it easy to drag notes quickly among pitches that are in the current key.

If you need to transpose more than a few notes, use the Process > Transpose command. For more information, see Transposing.

To move a single note in the Staff view

1.	Select the Select tool or Draw tool in the Control Bar.

2.	Click the note to be moved.

3.	Drag the note to a new time, pitch, or staff.

SONAR moves the note to the new location.

To move several notes in the Staff view

1.	Select the Select tool in the Control Bar.

2.	Select the notes to be moved.

3.	Click one of the selected notes.

4.	Drag the notes to a new time, pitch, or staff.

SONAR moves the notes to the new location.

To copy one or more notes in the Staff view

1.	Select the Select tool in the Control Bar.

2.	Select the notes to be copied.

3.	Press and hold the CTRL key.

4.	Drag the notes to a new time, pitch, or staff.

SONAR inserts copies of the notes at the new location.

To erase notes with the Erase tool

1.	Select the Erase tool in the Control Bar.

2.	Click any notehead to erase the note.

3.	To erase several notes, click and drag with the Erase tool.

Any notes whose notehead is touched by the eraser will be deleted.