Remove bass clef rests when writing third and fourth voice
I am writing for four voices, two in treble clef and two in bass clef on a single two-clef score. By writing the first note of the 3rd voice (tenor) with the mouse I can get the 3rd and 4th voices in the bass staff but even when notes are written in the bass staff the default full-bar rests in the bass staff remain visible. I could set each rest as invisible but it has to be done one at a time which is very time consuming. I know that a known problem with 0.9.4 is that first voice rests can't be removed, and the rests do appear in blue when highlighted, but surely there must be a way of removing them in the bass clef when the 1st voice has a note in the treble clef. Can anyone help?
I'm using 0.9.4 on Windows XP and have reproduced the problem in Revision 1518.
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I'm using the "Hymn" template
The voices are numbered per staff. Use voice 1 and 2 for soprano and alto in the top staff. Then use voice 1 and 2 again for tenor and bass in the bottom staff.
Just in case you aren't aware, there is a way to swap the notes between voices if you have already written many of them out. Select the measures you want to swap, then choose Edit > Voices > Exchange 1-3 and Exchange 2-4
In reply to The voices are numbered per by David Bolton
Thanks David. That has completely solved my problem.
Now, apparently the function of exchanging the voices have been moved under "Tools"-"Voices".
In reply to Now, apparently the function… by ukimba
Yes, 11 years might end up moving some menu items from their location.