Selecting individual notes and rests
To select a note or rest, tap it and hold the pen to the screen. Move the pen up and down to change the note’s pitch. (You can’t move a rest up or down.) Move the pen left or right to temporarily shift the position of the note or rest in the bar to make room to write more music. Once you release the pen, the note or rest is no longer selected.
Selecting other items
Many other items in StaffPad can be selected in a similar way, by tapping and holding with the pen:
Text and rehearsal marks can be selected and moved left or right.
Trills, glissandos, portamentos, hairpins, octave lines, mute linesand pedal lines can be selected by their endpoints and extended or contracted left or right.
Repeat ending lines can be selected by their endpoints and extended or contracted left or right.
Da Capo, Dal Segno, Fine, and Segno marks can all be selected and moved left or right. The Coda sign cannot be moved on its own; it will move to the next bar after wherever you move “D.C. al Coda” or “D.S. al Coda” to.
Slurs can be selected by their endpoints and extended or contracted left or right. You can also adjust the arc of the slur by selecting its midpoint and dragging it up or down. To flip a slur entirely, drag the midpoint up or down, as appropriate, unless its direction is reversed.
Mordents, turns, and fermatas can be selected and dragged left or right to another note.
A trill-to note can be selected; dragging it left or right will toggle its status between a half-step and whole-step trill.
Selecting an arpeggio, octave line, up/down bow, doits, falls, scoops, and plops, or bar repeats and dragging it up or down will toggle its state.
Tuplets can be selected by their endpoints and dragged left or right. If a tuplet encompasses a different number of notes than is indicated by its numeral, it will turn red to warn you that something is wrong.
Selecting a barline and dragging it left or right will respace the bar, unless the bar is active, in which case room will be temporarily made to allow for more music to be written.