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790 Chapter 33 Working With Notation
An advantage of this approach is that you don’t need to worry about MIDI channels
during recording or input, and notes won’t disappear unintentionally. There is, however,
the disadvantage that the Voice Separation tool cannot be used to assign notes to
voices.
Other applications for this method would include the display of beamed grace notes,
occasional polyphony in a guitar part, or the indication of rhythmic accents above or
below beat slashes in rhythm section parts.
Don’t forget that you can add further voices to a staff, to display more complex parts
(up to 16).
Advanced Staff Style Usage
This section contains information on a number of features, techniques, and tips that
will help you to make better use of the staff styles functions.
Mouse Input in Polyphonic Staff Styles
Mouse input into polyphonic staff styles is very easy, if you activate View > Explode
Polyphony (also available as a key command). This forces all voices to be displayed on
separate staffs, regardless of staff style settings (the other voice parameters remain
valid).
If you insert a note into a staff style that uses MIDI channels for voice separation, it is
automatically assigned the corresponding MIDI channel (of the staff that you add the
note to). Following input, turn off the Explode Polyphony setting. This will display all
voices correctly in one staff, as per the staff style settings.
You can, of course, also insert notes directly into polyphonic staffs without activating
the Explode Polyphony setting. In this situation, inserted notes are assigned the MIDI
channel set in the Insert Defaults of the Event Parameter box (but only if that particular
channel is used by one of the voices in the staff).
Changing the Staff Assignment of Symbols
There is a Staff parameter in the Event Parameter box, for most symbols inserted into
multiple staff styles. This parameter determines which staff the symbol belongs to.