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Multi-voice notation
Up to two independent voices can be annotated for each staff. The voices differ in the direction of the
note stems: the first voice is always with the stem pointing upwards, the second with the stem pointing
downwards. Rests are displayed individually for each voice.
Multi-voice notation can simplify the score considerably and enable multiple instruments or parts to be
displayed in one staff together.
You can set the voice by selecting the notes and clicking on the button or menu command "Assign first
voice" or "Assign second voice".
This sets the stem direction of the notes, and therefore the voice itself.
This assignment can be undone by clicking on
"Automatic staff assignment for notes".
For automatic voice assignment, the note's MIDI
channel has to be analyzed.
To do this, set up a MIDI channel for the second voice in the stave properties dialog. This can be set
individually for each staff. All notes of a stave whose MIDI channel has not yet been assigned to a
second voice, are added to the first voice.
Voice assignment via the MIDI channel can be practical when displaying standard MIDI files with
multi-voice piano pieces if the voices of the right hand are set to the first and second MIDI channels and
the voices of the left hand are set to MIDI channels three and four. In this case, apply the following
settings:
Note:
If there is no MIDI channel selected for voice assignment, only one voice will be annotated (if manual
voice assignment does not occur).
MIDI score settings dialog
Open score settings dialog for stave and page properties
Note stave and page format settings can be set here. None of the settings have any influence on the
MIDI
data itself, but rather only on the display of the score.
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