Best Practice for Arpeggio and multiple voices
Hi,
I have a rather simple piano notation that should look like this:
To achieve this the process was rather complex and I needed 3 voices with indiviudal settings for visibility and playback:
- When I just use 2 voices I can't get the arpeggio to work:
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so I need to use voice 1 for the arpeggio and voice 2 for the whole note. and disable visibility for the lower note in the first voice. but then the stem can only be disabled completely.
- to "fix" that i have to add a third voice in order to get the stem only visible for the upper note.
Playback is still a bit problematic with that approach.
Is there an easier way to do something like that? Any suggestions?
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Comments
Use an invisible whole note C, turn off play on the dotted quarter note? Might not sound precisely the same but at normal playback speed I can't hear a huge difference.
In reply to Use an invisible whole note… by underquark
ah yes, that way round it's easier. Thanks. but there is no (hidden) way to "split" stems vertically that I missed, right?
(You can do it the other way round - add it to the E then press Shift + up; Shift + up/down basically moves whichever end of the arpeggio you have selected to the next voice above or below). See the handbook.
This solves the engraving problem, but I don't believe proper playback is implemented yet.
1) Use 2 voices and 1 arpeggio symbol, (as per oktophonie's reply).
2) Use Piano Roll Editor to set the precise timing of each note's start time.
This will give proper notation and correct playback.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/piano-roll-editor#Opening