Dynamics
How loud the music is, from ppp to fff, and crescendos and decrescendos between.
Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.
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A dynamic says how loud the music is from that beat on, until the next one. Reflow draws it under the staff and plays the notes louder or softer.
The Dynamics tools
In Edit, Dynamics is among the tools’ categories. Its eight buttons go from the softest to the loudest:
| ppp | pp | p | mp | mf | f | ff | fff |
| very, very soft | very soft | soft | moderately soft | moderately loud | loud | very loud | very, very loud |
Choose one and it is written on the beat at the cursor, or on each selected beat, replacing the one there. On the Mac they are in Note › Dynamics.
To move a dynamic, select it with the Select tool: its options set the staff it is drawn on, its lane and its offset.
Crescendo and decrescendo
A crescendo (<, a hairpin opening) grows louder over the beats it spans, and a decrescendo (>, a hairpin closing) softer. They are in the Effect tools, not Dynamics: select the beats, open Effect, and choose Cresc. or Decresc. (at the strip’s end). Select its hairpin with the Select tool to move it, or Delete it in its options. On the Mac: Effect › Crescendo and Effect › Decrescendo.