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The "Ringing Note" causes the selected note to ring out for twice the duration indicated in the notation. It's intended to allow a natural sustain in the MIDI playback without the clutter caused in both notation and tablature by an extensive use of tied notes. Entry of such notes is simple. Just place the cursor on the note to be so extended and then select the effect from either the "Special Effects" dialog or from the palette of the same name. In the example below, both measures are played in exactly the same way. The horizontal black lines extending to the right of each note indicates its effective duration. It can be shown/hidden using the shortkey [ _ ] (underscore). The "Ringing note" effect should be used sparingly. Here are a few guidelines:
The following illustration shows two examples of incorrect usage of the effect:
And this is the theoretically correct notation for the example above:
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