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Polyphonic voicing
Moving notes between voices
Manually
To manually move notes to a particular voice, proceed as
follows:
1. Select the note(s) you want to move to a particular
voice.
2. Right-click on one of the notes and select “Move to
Voice” from the context menu that appears.
Move to Voice and the submenu it invokes.
3. On the submenu, select the voice to which you want
to move the notes.
Voices not activated are not shown.
• Alternatively, you can press [Ctrl]/[Command] and click
a voice Insert button on the extended toolbar to move the
selected notes to the corresponding voice.
You can also assign key commands for this in the Score Functions cate-
gory of the Key Commands dialog on the File menu.
Automatically – the Explode function
The Explode function distributes notes, either into new
tracks (see “The Explode function” on page 510) or into
polyphonic voices:
1. Pull down the Scores menu and select “Explode…”
from the Functions submenu.
The Explode dialog, set to create polyphonic voices.
2. Make sure “To Polyphonic Voices” is selected at the
top of the dialog.
3. Use the options in the lower half of the dialog to set up
the criteria for the split.
Choose from the following options:
4. Click OK.
The notes are distributed to different voices.
Option Description
Split Note Use this to move all notes below a certain pitch to another
voice.
Lines To Tracks Use this when you want all musical “lines” to be put in one
voice each. The notes with the highest pitch will go to the
first voice, the notes with the second highest pitch will go
to the second, and so on.
Bass To Lowest
Voice
When this is activated, the lowest notes will always end
up in the lowest voice.