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Chapter 20 View and edit music notation 695
Add notes to a polyphonic sta style
You can “explode” polyphonic parts, displaying all voices on separate stas, regardless of sta
style settings. (Other voice parameters remain valid.) This makes it easier to add notes using
the pointer.
If you add a note to a sta style that uses MIDI channels for voice separation, it’s automatically
assigned the corresponding MIDI channel (of the sta that you add the note to). When you’re
nished adding notes, turn o the Explode Polyphony setting so all voices are displayed correctly
in one sta.
If you add notes to a polyphonic sta without turning on the Explode Polyphony setting, the
notes are assigned the MIDI channel set in the Insert Defaults of the Event inspector (but only if
that channel is used by one of the voices in the sta).
Display polyphonic parts on separate stas
m Choose View > Explode Polyphony from the Score Editor menu bar (or use the corresponding
key command).
Change the sta assignment of score symbols
In addition to notes, most other score symbols can be assigned to a particular sta in a multiple-
sta sta style. The Event inspector includes a Sta parameter where you can set the sta for
these symbols.
Change the sta for a score symbol
1 Select the symbol in the score.
You might need to use the Layout tool to select the symbol.
2 In the Event inspector, drag the Sta number up or down to change the sta for the
selected symbol.
Beam notes across stas
Music for keyboard instruments, and other instruments notated on multiple stas, can contain
passages where notes on dierent stas (played by the left and right hand, for example) are
connected with a beam, to clarify that the musical phrase continues across the stas.
In the Score Editor, only notes belonging to the same voice can be connected with beams. By
default, notes of the same voice are normally all displayed on the same sta. Using the Score
Editor’s Sta Assignment commands, you can display notes of the same voice on dierent stas.
For example, the following image depicts a piano passage using the Piano sta style featuring
two MIDI channels (1 and 2). The notes in the upper sta belong to voice one (MIDI channel 1).
The notes in the lower sta belong to voice two (MIDI channel 2).
Using the Voice/Sta Assignment commands in the Score Editor’s Functions menu, you can place
the right-hand notes falling below middle C in the bass sta, but maintain the beaming.