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Polyphonic voicing
Creating crossed voicings
Creating crossed voicings
Often, for example in vocal scoring, you have crossed voicings on one system. You
can of course move notes manually into voices to get the stem direction and other
note properties right, but there is a quicker way. Let’s explain how to do this by
example. Without using polyphonic voicing, you have entered this:
1. Open the Score Settings dialog on the Staff page and select the Polyphonic tab.
2. From the Staff Mode pop-up menu, select Polyphonic.
3. Activate voice 1 and 2 only, and make settings for them as in the picture below.
4. Click Apply.
The staff is in Polyphonic staff mode, but all notes are still in the same voice.
5. Open the Scores menu and select “Explode” from the Functions submenu.
6. In the dialog that appears, select the “To Polyphonic Voices” option and activate
“Lines To Tracks”.
Leave the other options off.
7. Click OK.
The notes have now been split in two “lines”, each in a separate voice. However,
from the middle of the bar, notes that are in voice 1 should be in voice 2 and vice
versa.
8. Select the two notes that you want to be moved from voice 1 to voice 2.
Two notes in
voice 1
selected.
9. Move the notes to voice 2.
The quickest way to do this is to press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click the voice Insert
[2] button on the extended toolbar.
Two notes
moved to the
right voice.