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Polyphonic voicing
Handling rests
3. Use the options in the lower half of the dialog to set up the criteria for the split.
Choose from the following options:
4. Click OK.
The notes are distributed to different voices.
Alternative ways of handling voices
Below we suggest further “advanced” ways of putting notes into voices. This is based
on the relation between voices and MIDI channels, so please make sure that you
understand how this connection works.
- Cubase only: You can use the Logical Editor (see the chapter “The Logical Editor,
Transformer, and Input Transformer” on page 580) to put notes into voices, based
on other more complex criteria, like for example their pitch and length. This is done
by setting up the Logical Editor so that the notes that meet the criteria get their
MIDI channel changed to that of their voice.
- When you enter notes using step input you can change the MIDI channel on your
input device and directly enter notes into separate voices.
- You can play back each voice on a different MIDI channel, simply by setting the
track to Any. This can be used as a convenient way of “proof-hearing” each voice
separately.
- You can use the Input Transformer to assign a certain key range to a MIDI channel,
and thereby automatically put notes into voices when recording.
- For brass and vocals, you might record each voice on its own track, and use the
“Merge All Staves” function to automatically copy each recording to a separate
voice on a new track (see
“Automatic polyphonic voicing – Merge All Staves” on
page 788).
- When you have assigned parts to voices, you can use the Extract Voices function
to create one track out of each voice (see
“Converting voices to tracks – Extract
Voices” on page 789).
Handling rests
With polyphonic voices, you often get more rest symbols than desired.
• If a voice does not need any rests at all, you can deactivate rests separately for this
voice on the Polyphonic tab of the Staff page in the Score Settings dialog.
• If you only need rests from one voice on a staff, activate Rests–Center for that
voice (this is done in the same dialog). If two or more voices have rests, deactivate
Rests–Center. The program then automatically makes sure the rests do not
“collide” in the score, by adjusting their vertical position.
• To avoid having several rests displayed in empty bars, you can activate the Rests–
Reduce option for all voices (that have rests) except one. This option causes the
program to hide rests in empty bars.
• You can use the Hide feature (see “Hiding/showing objects” on page 868) to
totally remove individual superfluous rests from the score.
Option Description
Split Note Use this to move all notes below a certain pitch to another voice.
Lines To Tracks Use this when you want all musical “lines” to be put in one voice
each. The notes with the highest pitch goes to the first voice, the
notes with the second highest pitch goes to the second, and so on.
Bass To Lowest
Voice
When this is activated, the lowest notes always ends up in the
lowest voice.