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Polyphonic voicing
Setting up the voices
Setting up the voices
To set up your score for polyphonic voicing, proceed as follows:
1. Make sure that the desired staff is active.
2. Open the Score Settings dialog and select the Staff page.
3. Select the Polyphonic tab.
4. Open the Staff Mode pop-up menu and select Polyphonic.
This makes the voice list in the lower part of the dialog available. It consists of eight
rows, one for each voice. They are numbered and therefore we refer to them as
voices 1 to 8.
5. To activate a voice, click in its “On” column, so that a checkmark appears.
There are four voices on each staff, for a total of eight. If you activate one “upper”
voice and one “lower” voice, you get a split (piano) staff.
6. If you have particular reasons to use specific MIDI channels, change the “Chan”
settings for the voices.
The program automatically sets each voice to a different MIDI channel. If you do
not have good reasons to make changes, leave the settings as they are.
7. Click in the “Rests–Show” column to decide for which voices you want rests
displayed.
A checkmark indicates that rests are shown for a voice. Often you only want rests
to be shown for one voice per staff, see below.
8. If you have activated “Rests–Show” for a voice, but do not want rests to be shown
in empty bars, click in the “Rests–Reduce” column for that voice.
This is especially useful for cue voices, see “Cue notes” on page 806.
9. Click in the “Rests–Center” column to determine at which vertical positions rests
are shown (for voices with “Rests–Show” activated).
When this option is activated for a voice, the rest is put in the vertical center of the
staff, when it is not, the rest gets a vertical position based on the pitch of the notes.
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Do not confuse the voice numbers with the MIDI channel setting for each voice.
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If two voices are set to the same MIDI channel, the lower voice is treated as if it were
turned off.