Can I make certain instruments in the score invisible?
I'm writing down some basic band exercises, most voices are unison, I only need to see four voices, but I have 26 parts on the score. Can I "hide" the superfluous parts? Or do I just need to make a separate Musescore file with it's own condensed score?
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I thought I figured it out, but it turns out that the properties lets you hide notes, but only from the part and not the score?
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do, but this might be what you need?
With your score displayed, open the Instruments tab at upper left. It will show an entry for each staff in the score. At the left of each staff is an "eye" icon. Click the "eye" to close it and that staff is hidden. Click it again and it reappears.
In reply to I'm not sure I understand… by TheHutch
Or is it that in this section you need these four staves and in that section you need those four. If that's the case, try looking at Format / Style / Score / Hide empty staves within system.
In reply to I'm not sure I understand… by TheHutch
Just be aware that if you hide things at the instrument level (vs the staff level), they won't be played back either, and essentially are no different from having been deleted (unless maybe you can extract parts for hidden instruments?).
Why do you have 26 parts if you only need four? Just remove the ones you do not need, in the "Instruments" view/tab/dialog. Or just create a score with the four parts you need.