How to delete the rest symbols from a sheet?
To compose a bicincum I first create a new sheet with 4 voices.
I only place the notes of the known melody in voice 3.
Then I print the sheet (draft version) and put it on the music stand for further composing voice 1 (writing notes with a pencil).
My wish is, before I print that sheet, to (temporarily) suppress the rest symbols of the voices 1,2 and 4.
I have understood that it will only be possible by graying them out on the printed version.
The question is how?
And is it possible to change the gray color into light gray, so that the nearly invisible rest symbols do not disturb my pencil written annotations?
Comments
You can't delete voice 1 rests, but you can make them invisible (select, press V). You can delete voice 2-4 rests though
In reply to You can't delete voice 1… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you! I minor issue (see picture): the greyed out rest symbol (voice 1) is covering the note in voice 3 a bit.
Replacing that note did not solve it.
It seems there is no command by selecting the note and place it to foreground?
In reply to Thank you! I minor issue … by prelude_4
You can offset that invisible rest or change that rest's stacking order to be lower than that of the note or hide invisible elements from view entirely. It won't print though in any case.
In reply to You can offset that… by Jojo-Schmitz
The printed version is "rest symbol free. It's OK so.
Thanks.
Why are you using voice 3 in the first place? Normally one should use voices 1-2 only per staff (unless some staff will actually have more than two voices).
In reply to Why are you using voice 3 in… by Marc Sabatella
I was writing a Bicinium for organ. The Tenor-melody (Voice3) was leading, placed on the lower stave. I made a print of it and sketched the Soprano melodynotes on the printed version and that will be later Voice1.
When I create a SATB piece of music I normally give them Voice1, 2, 3, and 4 resp.
In some cases my wish is to control my organ by midicodes generated by Musescore (if possible). Then it is worth that for example each voice can be played on that organ with his own manual of that organ. It can be also for an organ which is loaded as SF2 file (to play the melody with a leading voice).
In reply to I was writing a Bicinium for… by prelude_4
Maybe I'm still missing something, but you shouldn't normlly be using voices 1, 2, 3, and 4 for SATB - you should be using 1 & 2 ont he top staff for S & A, 1 & 2 on the bottom for T & B. MuseScore requires voices be complete. If you use voices 3 & 4 for T & B, you will always have those extra rests.