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70 Chapter 5: Working With Your Music
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Selecting Zoom Levels
In addition to the Zoom tool available in the Annotation Bar (see “Zoom Tool” on
page 87 ) you can select a Zoom level to work with for your whole score. The meaning
of the Zoom Level is not completely intuitive, especially in MusicPad Manager. The
zoom percentages are the percentage of the size of the piece on a MusicPad Pro tablet
when the toolbars are not displayed. So 100% may not actually display without
scrollbars in MusicPad Manager or on the MusicPad Pro tablet if you have Toolbars
displayed or have a window size that is not larger than 1024x768. The reason for doing
this is so that you can accurately annotate your music without having errors in the
location annotations due rounding errors when the score is resized.
If you select Fit on either the MusicPad Pro tablet or in MusicPad Manager, your score
fits in your current window without scrollbars.
To change the zoom level
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Tap the Zoom level selection menu.
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Tap the Zoom level you want.
Changing Page Dimensions
This section covers viewing the page size dimensions (in pixels) for your type of
MusicPad Pro tablet and how to crop a score to maximize the available scren space.
Viewing Page Dimensions
From an open score, you can check the pixel size on a sheet in the score. Knowing the
dimensions helps you decide whether cropping is necessary. There are two types of
MusicPad Pro tablets, one with an LCD that displays at 600 x 800 pixels and another
with an LCD that displays at 768 x 1024. You can tell them apart because the higher-