For very complicated scores, there might be situations where you have tweaked the parameters for Display Quantize and Interpretation best you can, and you still can’t get the score exactly as you want it. Perhaps one setting works fine in one section of the Track and another is needed for another section.
In this case, “Score Notes To MIDI” will help you out. It changes the lengths and position of some or all the MIDI notes in the Track so that they have exactly the values currently shown on screen.
1. For safety, go back to the Arrange window and make a copy of the Track.
2. Open the Track again, in the Score Editor.
3. Make sure the notes you want to affect are not Hidden (see page 266).
4. If you want only a part of the score “converted”, use the To pop-up menu. By setting this up and perhaps selecting some notes, you can “convert” only the selected notes, only the notes inside the Cycle, etc. If you want all notes affected, make sure the menu says “All”.
5. Select “Score Notes To MIDI” from the Format submenu on the Score menu. The notes are now “converted”.6. Make whatever adjustments that are needed to make the score read back as intended.
Now that the notes have the exact lengths and positions that were previously only displayed, you can probably turn off many of the options in Staff settings and delete Display Quantize settings etc.
If you find the operation didn’t give you the result you were after, you can go back to the original Track, make a copy of that, and start over.