silence apareance in third voice

• Apr 3, 2017 - 21:44
Reported version
2.1
Type
Graphical (UI)
Severity
3
Status
by design
Project

Hi,

when editing a 3 voice in a grand staff, suddenly there appears a silence figure (in voice 1) that makes no sense and it is not possible to erase.

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Please attach a score showing what you mean. "Silence Figur" is a rest, isn't it? Voice 1 rests cannot get deleted, and that much is by design. You can make them invisible though.

The silence (rest in English) is in voice 1. You cannot delete voice 1 rests. You either need to exchange voice 1 with one of the others (probably 3) or select the rest and press V to make it invisible. It will appear gray if you have Show Invisible checked in the View menu.

Thanks for helping anyway, however there is a 3 voice piano piece. There is no room for a rest in voice one. I edited voice 1, then voice 2 and problem arises after inserting voice 3 (in every bar).

I will follow your advice regarding forum, but it seems a problem.

Best regards,

What Jojo was telling you is that the left hand of your piano piece has everything entered into voice 3, forcing rests to appear in voice 1. You can have 4 voice in the right hand AND 4 voices in the left hand. Always start each hand with voice 1 and the only extra rests you will see are the ones that fill out the rest of a measure or that you enter yourself.

Both hands start with voice and optionally have voices 2-4
Only ever use voice 3 and 4, if 1 and 2 are used already, in the same staff
Read the manual I linked to above and apply the sentence about SATB to piano.

Now, totally understood.

It's somehow tricky since for me hands are not equivalent to staffs but anyway. Understood.

Thanks a lot for the quick help.