Common Instrument Settings

Each instrument in the Instruments Visualizer has its own dedicated settings menu. These menus contain options that either apply to an entire family of instruments or are unique to a specific instrument. Settings that affect an entire family are labeled with the SHARED keyword.

To avoid repetition, this section explains settings options common to all or most instruments.

Show Note Labels

Virtual instruments use visual cues (e.g., lighting up keys, string segments, or drum elements) to indicate what and how to play notes. Enabling this option displays note labels alongside these cues.

Settings options “Show note labels” enabled. The fretboard at the top shows the note label C on an ukulele. The option is SHARED, which means note labels will appear for any selected plucked instrument

Note Labels Size

Available for plucked, string, and piano instruments, this option allows resizing of note labels.

Different resizings of note labels. The middle snapshot shows the default size of note labels

Caution

Larger labels may overlap with adjacent labels.

Distinct Color for Notes

This option assigns unique colors to each distinct note and its occurrences on different strings. It’s most useful for visualizing chords from non-tablature track sources and is available for plucked and string instruments.

Two before and after snapshots that show the difference this settings option makes when it is enabled. The second snapshot shows two notes C and E with different distinct colors for each note

Tip

This option provides a faster way to identify distinct notes compared to relying on note labels. You can also rely on both to achieve a better outcome.

Transpose

Available for most transposing instruments, this option allows transposition of incoming note data in half steps (semitones).

Use cases:

• Accounting for scores with non-standard written ranges for transposing instruments
• Adjusting for detuned plucked instruments (especially guitars)

Note

Transposition changes persist, so users should reset the count to zero when no longer needed, such as when switching to a different source track or score document.