Click Cancel to return to the score without making any changes. Click OK to confirm the changes you’ve made. You can enter notes of any rhythmic value (quarter note, eighth note, and so on) into the score with or without MIDI keyboard input.

If this check box is selected, Finale also rebars the selection-redistributes notes in their measures-so that each measure contains the proper number of beats. If you’re changing the values of notes in the selected measures, chances are that your measures will wind up containing the wrong number of beats. If you don’t select this option, the eighth note tuplet remains the same. For example, if you’re halving the rhythmic values of a passage, an eighth-note tuplet becomes a sixteenth-note tuplet. If you select this check box, Finale also transforms notes within tuplets (such as triplets and quintuplets) proportionally. This option only works when Change All Note Durations is selected. For example, to change all sixteenth notes into quarter notes, you’d click the sixteenth note in the top palette, and the quarter note in the bottom palette. (Click the dot, too, to specify a dotted note.) Specify the replacement note value by clicking an icon in the lower palette. It can convert from name to value and viceversa. Specify the note value you want to replace by clicking its icon in the upper palette. Note lengths Each note has a duration which is specified by its appearance when it is written down (see below). note-duration Deprecated: use tonal (tonal/duration). Instead of changing values of all notes, you can change only a specific note value for example, you might want to double the values of eighth notes, but to leave all other note values alone. For example, choose 200% to double every note’s rhythmic value-to turn every eighth note into a quarter, every quarter into a half note, and so on. Using the drop-down menu, specify how you want to affect all notes in the selected region.

You can always decrease a note's duration but depending on the situation, you will not be able to increase it. This dialog box lets you halve, double, or otherwise change the note values in a selected region. You can change the length of an existing note in StaffPad by holding a note with the pencil (without moving at first) and then moving left to decrease the duration of the note or right to increase it. Choose Utilities > Change > Note Durations.Choose the Selection tool, and select a region of measures.

Note durations