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Duration of music notes is read from the form of the note head or the number of flags (or beams), augmentation dot(s) and/or tuplet notation
Durations of notes and rests can be altered using:
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<F5> |
Shorten cursor-note resulting in a triad-note unless it was already dotted, duration becomes 2/3 of the original duration. Counterpart of <F6>. |
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<F6> |
Lengthen cursor-note with half its duration. Punctuate is meaningful/possible. Duration becomes 3/2 of the original duration. Counterpart of <F5>) |
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<F7> |
Half duration of cursor-note. |
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<F8> |
Double duration of cursor-note. Duration 2/1 will be drawn as brevis duration 3/1 or more as longa . |
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<alt-5> |
Shorten to quintuplet duration |
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<alt-7> |
Shorten to septuplet duration |
Choose default duration for entering notes:.
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<1> |
choose duration 1/1, whole note, semibreve |
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<2> |
choose duration 1/2, half note, minim |
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<4> |
choose duration 1/4, quarter note, crotchet |
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<8> |
choose duration 1/8 eight note, quaver |
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<6> |
choose duration 1/16, sixteenth note, semiquaver |
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<7> |
choose duration 1/32, thirtysecond note, demisemiquaver |
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<3> |
triad-enter; all new notes get 2/3 of default value. |
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<5> |
punctuation-enter all new notes get 3/2 of default value. |
With auto-duration enabled using 
or <alt-A> clicking on duration button will alter duration
of cursor-note
Effective play duration can differ wildly from notation especially when using articulation modifiers like staccato.
Duration of grace-notes will not taken into account for displaying bar lines and determining clusterization.
