Apple Pencil
Point, write and select on the iPad with the Apple Pencil, while your fingers scroll.
Available on iPad.
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On iPad, the Apple Pencil works on the score as a finger does, with one difference: a stroke of the Pencil selects at once, where a finger first has to touch and hold. Your fingers keep scrolling and zooming the score.
Writing with the Pencil
- Tap with the Pencil to put the cursor on a string and a beat, select a note, or press a button: a tap is a tap.
- Double-tap a staff to start writing there, in Edit.
- Type the frets on the keypad with your other hand, or on a keyboard connected to the iPad.
Selecting with the Pencil
Draw on the score with the Pencil, no waiting:
- In Edit, across the tab: the beats you cross are selected, from where the stroke started.
- With the Select tool, from the empty paper: a box, and what it crosses is selected. From a note or a handle: you drag it.
The Magnifier shows what is under the Pencil’s tip while you draw (see Moving around).
A finger dragged on the score scrolls it (in every tool but Design, where it moves the systems): with the Pencil in one hand, you can move through the score with the other without losing your selection.