You can input notes and notations onto multiple staves simultaneously, including automatically exploding the notes in chords that you play on a MIDI keyboard onto the appropriate staves. For example, if you want to input notes onto both piano staves or input the same dynamics for multiple instruments.
Inputting notes and notations onto multiple staves is most useful for multiple adjacent pitched instruments whose music is only a single voice.
Prerequisite
If you want to explode individual notes in chords onto multiple staves during note input, you have connected a MIDI keyboard. You can only input the different notes in chords onto separate staves when using a MIDI keyboard.
Procedure
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Press Shift-N.
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In the Notes toolbox, click Start Note Input
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Double-click the staff.
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Press Esc or Return.
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In the Notes toolbox, click Start Note Input
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Result
The notes and notations you input are input at the caret position on all staves across which the caret extends. If the caret extends across both staves of a grand staff instrument, notes are input on either the top or bottom staff according to their pitch. However, this does not apply to grand staff instruments with extra staves.
When inputting notes using a MIDI keyboard, the individual notes in any chords you input are automatically exploded across the staves.
You can change whether notes in chords are exploded onto multiple staves or all notes are input onto all staves on the MIDI Input page in Note Input Options.