Copy voice 1 into voice 2 and repitch

• Jun 9, 2024 - 19:14

It should be easy. I've looked on line and watched relevant videos.

I enter my voice one notes. Since the voice two notes have the same durations, I want to copy voice 1 into voice 2, and then use the repitch to enter the pitches into voice two, without needing to change durations. Finale has the option to Move or Copy Layers. All I find in MS is the option to exchange voices. I know I could use a scratch staff to do this, followed by implode, but that seems like a little more work.

Is there a way to do what I want?


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One way might be to enter the voice 1 notes. Then range select them (I might do it a few measures at a time just to test). Then go to Add>Intervals and select a third below, for example. Then repitch the added notes as needed.

In reply to by mikey12045

I forgot you want two voices. The first way I did it leaves two voices but might take longer.
Ctrl+c The melody. Ctrl+down arrow a few times. Hit voice two in the tool bar. Clear the selection . Select the first measure. Ctrl+v should return the melody.

Generally you would use two voices when the two sets of notes do not have the same duration/rhythms. That said, here's how you do what you want.

  1. Enter the (eventual) Voice 2 notes/rhythms in Voice 1.
  2. Select and Ctrl+C to copy.
  3. Tools / Voices / Exchange voice 1-2.
  4. Click the first rest in Voice 1.
  5. Ctrl+V to paste.

There are a number of possible variations on this! For example, in step 1 enter the actual Voice 1 notes. Immediately before or after step 3, move those notes to the correct position for Voice 2. (Shift+Alt+up- or down-arrow moves the notes diatonically rather than chromatically.) Then on step 5 you are pasting the actual Voice 1 notes.

In reply to by mikey12045

Yes, including multiple Voices does that explicitly. Voice 1 goes stem up; Voice 2, stem down. If you want them to share stems, input them in a single voice as a chord.

You can flip the Voice 2 notes in your example and it looks like they are sharing stems, but if the notes are too far apart, it's obvious that they aren't connected, without extending the stem

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