Voices
just like in Finale, I would like to have this feature:
When I enter a second voice, the "first" voice already entered becomes grey
Also, I would like to hide (toggle) notes or rest with a shortcut - pressing H for instance
Why? Musescore places the rests over the first voice and the score becomes a mess.
Thank you
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now you can already make invisible breaks.
It is not practical but it works.
Yeah, greying out notes in other voices during nte entry was a nice feature in Finale. I'd forgotten about that. Seems that would be easy enough to implement if someone were looking were looking for a programming project to get acquainted with the MuseScore code...
A shortcut to flip visibility is already implemented for 2.0. As is better vertical positioning of rests in a multi-voice context. So these collisions don't happen in the first place.
But note that for 1.X, you should never use hiding rests as the solution to these collisions. In most cases, the rests need to be displayed in order the notation to be correct and readable. Only hide rests if you npinderstand the rules and are ansolutely positive this is is one of the rare cases where hiding them is correct. In most ases, you should leave the rest visible, but simlly move it up or down: double click, arrow keys.
In reply to Yeah, greying out notes in by Marc Sabatella
thank you, marc
the thing is how to move them vertically, when it appears at the same place of a note on voice 1?
In reply to thank you, marc the thing is by alfreedogoomez
In the attached score the first 8 measures are written with four voices: Breaks in excess are invisible;
The subsequent 8 measures are written with two voices (1/2): breaks do not want do not appear.
Meanwhile, developers working for us ...
In reply to By way of example by Shoichi
thanx, Shoichi
look at the fourth measure, the rest is over the F note of the second voice on the "male" system
that's what I meant by a mess
Think about a Cantata by Bach where the Continuum has three or four voices... so many rests over the other voices notes become a clutter...
In reply to thank you, marc the thing is by alfreedogoomez
To move a rest, double click on it and then use the up/down arrows.
In reply to To move a rest, double click by xavierjazz
I know that, but how do I do that when the rest is over a note on other voice?
It's particularly difficult when you work on a tablet...
In reply to I know that, but how do I do by alfreedogoomez
It may take a 2 step process, moving the note out of the way first and moving it back when finished.
In reply to It may take a 2 step process, by xavierjazz
Yes, Xavierjazz, already tried that... It's common sense.
But wouldn't it be great if the software already avoided collisions when entering notes/rests on a voice other than the first one?
In reply to Yes, Xavierjazz, already by alfreedogoomez
Yes, and as I said, this already happens in 2.0, so that's good news.
Meanwhile, moving a note out of the way temporarily does indeed sometimes turn out to be necessary. Often, though, simply zooming in is all you really need. i find quarter rests are usually pretty east to grad once I've zoomed in. Eight and half rests are more likely to need the note-moving workaround.
Vocal music that is mostly monophonic (all voices in same rhythm) but occasionally requires one voice to have two eighths where the others are just a quarter is one of the exceptions I referred to where you don't have to show the rests. Now, I'd imagine that comes up more in Bach chorales than cantatas, but either way, if this is the texture you are looking at, then indeed, hiding rests is fine.
So between 2.0 automatically positioning rests better and making it easier to hide things when appropriate, I think it will be welcomed by people writing for choirs (and piano). Meanwhile, you have to make do with the workarounds.
In reply to thank you, marc the thing is by alfreedogoomez
select a note or rest previous clearly visible (the same voice), then moved to the next with the directional arrow.