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Accompaniment generated with the composition libraries Freely aligning staves and systems on a page Adjusting the frame of the graphic copy French or international note/chord names How can you stop the Octava (8va) effect? How can you change the Pizzicato working mode? How to convert a Pizzicato file into a ".WAV" audio file ? How to create a pickup measure ? How can you hear the written chords? How do you number measures not starting from "1" ? How to make jazz play more natural? (Beginner and Professional versions) How do you extend the line associated to a repeat sign over several staves? Volume control : limits imposed by MIDI channels Copying lyrics from one line to another Volume or velocity crescendo ? Creating systems with different number of staves Creating an effective crescendo with Pizzicato Light and Beginner... Creating a page for free music writing Create scores larger than the A4 paper format Truncated dialogs on Windows XP Musical dictation with Pizzicato Specifying the colors of notes Exchanging Pizzicato files between Mac and PC Exchanging scores between various versions of Pizzicato Encoding notes without stems in a measure - free measures Recording several voices on the same staff Extracting parts with Pizzicato Beginner MIDI file impossible to transcribe in a legible way? Generating arpeggios with the composition tools Printing a score in a different format than A4 Print your Pizzicato scores in PDF files The baroque tools on Macintosh Don't loose your personal tools, save them! Personal code number... Summary! Problem with notes and musical symbols display? Repeating an accidental already in the key signature Splitting the right and left hands for the piano Selecting the measures to play How to transcribe the accidentals correctly? Using of the computer keyboard to enter notes Using a non MIDI instrument with Pizzicato ? Pizzicato lost tools or options Scan a score and modify it in Pizzicato Slowness while working on a large Pizzicato score? The conductor view of Pizzicato Creative use of an external MIDI keyboard Unison : how to write 2 identical notes for different voices Pianistic notation: cross staff beaming Installing a Pizzicato upgrade on Mac OS X or Windows Share Pizzicato scores with others and on the Internet Accessing the Pizzicato 3 Help Menu on Windows Problem with MIDI input or with the screen keyboard? Printing your scores on A3 paper format Encoding notes with the MIDI cursor and the keyboard Unexpected chord symbol moving? Pizzicato exits without warning after a few minutes? Using the metronome - Pizzicato 3.3 Reduced scores size - Pizzicato Beginner 3.3 Upbeats and uncomplete measures Adding the figured bass symbols Transition from Pizzicato 3.2 to 3.3 To export in audio with Windows Vista MIDI Yoke installation under Windows Vista Assigning virtual instruments anywhere in the score Playback of virtual instruments - Interrupted sound Courtesy key and time signatures Creating a chord progression in the style of… Getting the tablature from the chords progression Automatically assign the sounds of the orchestral Papelmedia library Switching between documents in Windows with Pizzicato Professional The Pizzicato Document Manager Shifting the rhythmic content of one or more measures Shortcuts for begin and end of the score Pizzicato file transfer by e-mail Entering notes with the computer keyboard Searching the Pizzicato manual for specific expressions Inserting notes with automatic shifting over several measures Hearing what is under the mouse