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Polyphonic voicing
Automatic polyphonic voicing –
Merge All Staves
If you have already created some tracks which look and
play back as they should, and you want to combine these
into one track with polyphonic voices, there is a special
function on the Scores menu for this:
1. Open the tracks (up to four) in the Score Editor.
2. Pull down the Scores menu and select “Merge All
Staves” from the Functions submenu.
Now a new track is created and shown in the score. The track will have
polyphonic voices activated, and the four original tracks will be assigned
to one voice each (voices 1, 2, 5 and 6 will be used).
Before…
…and after merging the staves
Furthermore, all non-linked symbols that belong to the
staff that will become the first polyphonic voice in the
merged staff will be copied. They will have the same posi-
tions as the original symbols.
Converting voices to tracks –
Extract Voices
This function does the opposite of “Merge All Staves” – it
extracts polyphonic voices from an existing track and cre-
ates new tracks, one for each voice. Proceed as follows:
1. Open a track containing 2 to 8 polyphonic voices in the
Score Editor.
2. Pull down the Scores menu and select “Extract
Voices” from the Functions submenu.
A number of new tracks is created and added to the display of the Score
Editor. Each track will contain the music from one polyphonic voice. If
there were non-linked symbols in the original track, each new track will
get a copy of these symbols.
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When you later play back the music, you need to mute
the four original tracks, or you will get double notes.
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When you later play back the music, you need to
mute the original track (the one with polyphonic
voices), or you will get double notes.