Difficulties in editing MIDI import

• Jul 31, 2017 - 23:17

Hi folks, I'm brand new to MuseScore. I've imported a MIDI file that I created in Pro Tools, and am trying to clean up the score. I've done some editing - changing note values, moving notes from Bass to Treble, reassigning voices. I have a first measure that looks good, except for a bunch of extraneous rests in both staves, assigned to voice 1, that I've been unable to delete. There's something I'm not understanding about the program; can someone help me? Screen Shot 2017-07-31 at 5.06.49 PM.png

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• Jul 31, 2017 - 23:25

Screen Shot 2017-07-31 at 5.21.08 PM.png A bit more: I exchanged voices 1 and 2, and then was able to delete the rests, which has become part of voice 2. I was left with a single rest in voice 1, which I still don't understand. I'm getting a somewhat cleaner result, but am still baffled.

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• Aug 1, 2017 - 00:48

You do not need to select multiple staves to exchange voices. In the treble staff, the blue rest is voice 1 and the green notes are voice 2. Only select the measure in that staff to exchange then delete the voice 2 rest.

Reading up on voices here: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/voices will help you understand better.

FYI, if you selected the first measure and exchanged voices 1 and 2, both voices would end up with rests in them.

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