Speech note for vocal
I wish to compose song which the part of the singers say out the lyrics instead of singing it. Besides adding instrument to the score, is there a way for the notes (unpitched) to be put at the same staff? Thank you.
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I can't tell exactly what you are trying to do - can you post a score (made with other software, drawn by hand, or whatever) to show what you mean?
In reply to I can't tell exactly what you by Marc Sabatella
Hey Marc Sabatella. I made a better version of your attachment by making the X notes silent.
Hope you'll like it.
Please look at Bar 14 & 15 of the attachment. The singer are not singing it but saying it. I insert usual notes and lyrics first, then, I press F9 to get palette, we click on note head and drag the "x" sign to each of the notes of the two bars, which is rather troublesome. From sight, there is no problem. Problems come when I play the music score, it's pitched and therefore not harmonised. Is there a shorter way to create unpitched sound for the "x" part? Thank you.
In reply to Re: by bvwn56
Visually, you could add (spoken:) before the words appear, or whatever the Chinese (?) equivalent is.
Maybe you could right-click notes, go to 'Note Properties...' and make the velocity of the notes 'zero', so nothing sounds?
In reply to Visually, you could add by chen lung
Thank you, Chen Lung, for the suggestion. Do you know how can I change the sound to percussion sound (for the spoken notes) without adding instrument staff? Thank you.
To turn the note heads into crossed select the ones you want to change then double click the cross icon in the Noteheads palette.
The only way to play them unpitched is to make them silent using the method Chen has outlined.
HTH
Michael
In reply to To turn the note heads into by ChurchOrganist
Thank you Michael for the double click suggestion. I didn't even think of that!
In reply to Thank you Michael by bvwn56
FYI, double click works for all note-attached palette items. It works even when multiple notes are selected.