Hiding things.
I've searched this and found lots of people asking how to hide stuff, but nothing seems to work for me. I want to be able to simply hide a voice (in its entirety). Basically, I want to take a piece with 2 voices (guitar) and learn the melody, then add the bass/harmony after. But I can only hide one element. The f6 selection filter seems to only be for copying stuff. I want to simply toggle the appearance of the second voice.
Can anybody help please?
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Use the selection filter
In reply to Use the selection filter by Jojo-Schmitz
Nothing I do with the f6 selection filter affects what I see in any way. That was the whole reason for my question. As I said, it seems to only be for selecting stuff. I don't want to select anything. I want to simply toggle the visibility of voices.
In reply to Nothing I do with the f6… by wibbleypants
Use the selection filter to restrict selection to voice 2 (click to untick All then tick voice 2). Then CTRL+A to select everything followed by keyboard shortcut V will set voice 2 to invisible. Follow that with ESC to get rid of the selection. To restore visibility use CTRL+A, V, ESC again. 3 key strokes rather than 1, but the best available at present. If you prefer not to see the greyed out "invisible" voice 2 you can make it completely invisible with keyboard shortcut CTRL+H which acts as a toggle or alternatively untick "Show Invisible" in the [View] menu.
In reply to Use the selection filter to… by SteveBlower
OK, cheers. I can sort of see it now. I have to select the voice and its fingerings etc. or they're left hanging. But one can't, for example, just hide fingerings.
In reply to OK, cheers. I can sort of… by wibbleypants
There is a category "fingerings" in the selection filter, so select just that if that is all you want to hide. This assumes that your fingerings were actually added as fingerings and not as a different type of text for workaround purposes.
If this is for practice purposes and you are not going to edit things, you could create additional instruments and copy everything to those and then make invisible whatever you want. The individual instrument's visibilities can then be toggled from the [Edit]>[Instruments] menu or to keep the visibility toggles in view you can do it from the Time Line shown by pressing f12. You have to hover your mouse over the righthand end of the instrument label in the time line to see the "winking eye" visibility button. In that way you could set up many different visibility schemes and switch between them fairly easily by showing only whichever instrument has the scheme you want.
Of course, if you are going to be editing things you would need to keep the additional instruments in sync with whatever edits you make.
In reply to There is a category … by SteveBlower
Not a massive issue, but if I select the fingerings category, then alt-a doesn't select anything if there isn't a voice selected as well. I have a feeling my next question will be about fingerings, as I tried some experimental second voicing and the fingerings were overlapping and illegible.
But that's for another day.
Cheers.
In reply to Not a massive issue, but if… by wibbleypants
Yes, my mistake, I misunderstood what you were trying to achieve. The selection filter is really only useful for excluding things. To just select fingerings in voice 2 right click on one of the voice 2 fingerings then use Select>More>Same voice
In reply to Yes, my mistake, I… by SteveBlower
OK. Thanks all. I searched for ages in the help for this info, but I must have been looking in the wrong places.
In reply to OK, cheers. I can sort of… by wibbleypants
The filter is, as the name implies, for removing things from the selection. If you want to actually select just the fingerings, you don't want the filter. Instead, right-click one fingering, Select / All Similar Elements, then press "V" to hide them.