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Polyphonic voicing
Setting up the voices
10.Decide on a stem direction for each voice, by selecting from the pop-up menu in
the Stems column.
If you select Auto, the program makes decisions about which stems go in which
direction (just as when not using polyphonic voices). You can always force stem
direction for individual notes by using the Flip Stem function, see
“Flipping the
stem of one or several notes” on page 791.
11.If you want the notes in a voice to be smaller than regular notes, put a checkmark
in the Cue column for the voice.
12.Click Apply.
The staff is changed to polyphonic voicing, and the program distributes the
existing notes into voices according to their MIDI channel values.
• At this point you may want to use the Explode function to automatically move notes
into the proper voices, see
“Automatically – the Explode function” on page 784.
If the “Some Notes Do Not Belong To Voices…” dialog appears
When you click Apply, a warning may appear saying “Some notes do not belong to
any voice and may be hidden. Correct these notes?”.
This warning appears when the staff contains notes with MIDI channel settings which
do not match any of the active voices.
If you click the “Correct” button, these notes are moved to active voices. If you click
“Ignore”, nothing is changed, and some notes are hidden. However, they are not lost,
they appear in all other editors and can be made to appear again in the Score Editor if
you change the channel settings for the notes or voices, activate more voices, etc.
About the polyphonic presets
The Presets pop-up menu on the Polyphonic tab (below the list of voices) contains
three very useful setups. Instead of making settings by hand, you can select one of the
presets, saving some time. The presets are:
Variable Split
This sets up the dialog for two voices, one on each staff, each with auto stem
direction. This is a good starting point for a piano staff when the fixed split option does
not suffice.
Optimize Two Voices
In this preset, only voices 1 and 2 are activated, and set up like this:
This way the first voice behaves as in single staff mode, but if there are notes in the
second voice, the stems of the first one are set to Up.
Optimize Four Voices
This is like “Optimize Two Voices”, but with two staves. Voices 5 and 6 are activated
as well, with the same settings as voices 1 and 2. This is the recommended way to
write piano music.
!
There is a special stem feature for voice 1: If you set this to Auto, the stem direction
depends on the pitch of the note as usual – except if there are voice 2 notes in the bar,
because then the voice 1 stems are automatically set to Up!