Cannot get voices to work
Here is what I am trying to do.
One stave in the alto clef.
Voice 1: triplet with an eighth rest, the note A (below middle C) and the note G# a half step below. A and G# have the stems pointed up and they are beamed together.
Voice 2: 2 eighth notes rather than a triplet. The stems are downward. The two notes are beamed together.
I am not able to do simpler cases either. But is someone can give me the exact list of steps for the above example I will try it and see what happens.
Thank you for any information.
Comments
1. Enter notes for voice one normally.
3. Return to the beginning of the measure and re-enter note entry mode if you had left it.
2. Click the "2" icon (or use the keyboard shortcut) to switch to voice 2.
4. Enter voice 2 normally. Keep your eye on the display of the voices; occasionally MuseScore seems to want to return to voice 1.
The stem and beaming stuff should all happen automatically (I just tried it in your exact example and it worked as expected).
There is a more detailed description with images in the section on Voices in the handbook (http://musescore.org/en/handbook/voices).
In reply to 1. Enter notes for voice one by Marc Sabatella
Thank you for this information. I tried it step by step and it worked and I saw what I was not doing correctly. Musecsore is working very nicely.
I would appreciate any procedures to get this work, as I have expermented unsuccessfully.
I have one measure and one staff. The instrument is Violins 2, the key C major and the meter is 4/4. The 4/4 measure consists of four triplets, each having the duration of a quarter note. I have entered the upper voice. The pattern for each of the voices is:
Triplet 1: note, note, note
Triplet 2, rest, note, note
Triplet 3 rest, note, note
Triplet 4 rest, note, note
I entered the first triplet in the second voice and that worked.
However I cannot get the second triplet to work. Sometimes the cursor goes back to the previous triplet. It doesn't seem to be creating Voice 2 when I am starting by clicking on a rest in voice 1.
I hope you can try to reproduce this.
In reply to Another question about voices by peacenow
I'm not sure what you mean about MuseScore not "creating" voice 2 - it doesn't and isn't supposed to create voices automatically. You need to click the "2" (or use keyboard shortcut) to switch to voice 2. And I'm not sure why you'd ever be clicking on any rests, whether in voice 1 or voice 2. So I'm not sure what you are doing, exactly, but it doesn't sound like you are doing it right. The sequence should go like like (and I just tried it and it works fine)
1. enter Note entry mode; will default to voice 1
2. enter the full contents of voice 1 (5, ctrl-3, note-note-note, 5, ctrl-3, rest-note-note, 5, ctrl-3, rest-note-note, 5, ctrl-3, rest-note-note)
3. hit ctrl-left arrow to return to start of measure
4. hit "2" to switch to voice 2
5. repeat the sequence in step 2 above to enter contents of voice 2
Note at no time did I click any rest or note - everything was entered via Note Entry mode.directly.
In reply to I'm not sure what you mean by Marc Sabatella
Marc, Thank you for the information. I started the entire thing over again and followed your instructions and it worked. What did not work is when I had saved the file in which I had created voice 1, opened Musescore and opened the file, and then tried to enter voice 2 into the previously created staff.