How To Familiarize Yourself With Lime

We hope you will install Lime and experiment with it for a few hours.  Here are some suggestions:

• Run Lime and open the pieces in Lime's Examples folder.
• Print out the Lime User's Manual.  Do its step-by-step example, and skim the rest of the manual.
• Practice using Lime's Record option with your MIDI keyboard.
• Experiment with the Parts and Voices option.  Create and delete parts, reorder them, notate two voices together on one staff, stop and start printing voices at various points in your piece, and make a percussion staff.
• Group Select notes and change their articulation or accidentals.
• Add key or clef changes in several places at once with Group Select.  Use This Staff Only in the Key and Clef dialogs.
• Add text and line annotations.  Play with the Leave Space annotation control.  Type a MIDI control change, and try it out using the Hear option.
• Copy a text annotation, then Group Select notes and Paste to all the notes at once.  See how Horizontal Lock and Vertical Lock affect Multiple Paste.
• Use Duplicate At Each System to label your staves.
• Open two Lime pieces at once; copy and paste between them.  Start building up a single page Lime piece with useful stuff to copy to other pieces.
• Enter all the notes for a score, then use the Notation Contexts option to create parts.  Change a note in a part notation context, then look at the updated score.  See how Only In Score and All Notation Contexts affect appearance of annotations in score and parts.  Experiment with Duplicate Part Label.
• Experiment with piano tablature.  Enter a piano score in standard notation, then use the Parts and Voices option to convert it to piano tablature notation.
• Create a guitar piece that has notes in standard notation on one staff, and guitar tablature on another.  Copy and paste between the staves; make any necessary corrections to Lime's automatic fingering.
• Experiment with Parameters.  Try the microtonal accidentals in the Special Accidentals option.  Define some new accidentals for yourself using Parameters.
• Copy music excerpts from Lime to Microsoft Word.  Use Copy Rectangle in Lime, then Paste Special in Word 97/98/2000.  The music can be resized in Word, but not edited.
• Scan sheet music using SharpEye Music Reader or Musitek SmartScore, then use Lime's Import NIFF to import the scanned music.