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Polyphonic voicing
10. Decide on a stem direction for each voice, by select-
ing from the pop-up menu in the Stems column.
If you select Auto, the program makes decisions about which stems go in
which direction (just as when not using polyphonic voices). You can al
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ways force stem direction for individual notes by using the Flip Stem
function, see
“Flipping the stem of one or several notes” on page 604.
11. If you want the notes in a voice to be smaller than regu-
lar notes, put a checkmark in the Cue column for the voice.
12. Click Apply.
The staff is changed to polyphonic voicing, and the program distributes
the existing notes into voices according to their MIDI channel values.
• At this point you may want to use the Explode function
to automatically move notes into the proper voices, see
“Automatically – the Explode function” on page 598.
If the “Some Notes Do Not Belong To Voices…”
dialog appears
When you click Apply, a warning may appear saying “Some
notes do not belong to any voice and may be hidden. Cor-
rect these notes?”.
This warning appears when the staff contains notes with
MIDI channel settings which do not match any of the ac
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tive voices.
If you click the “Correct” button, these notes are moved to
active voices. If you click “Ignore”, nothing is changed, and
some notes are hidden. However, they are not lost, they ap
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pear in all other editors and can be made to appear again in
the Score Editor if you change the channel settings for the
notes or voices, activate more voices, etc.
About the polyphonic presets
The Presets pop-up menu on the Polyphonic tab (below the
list of voices) contains three very useful setups. Instead of
making settings by hand, you can select one of the presets,
saving some time. The presets are:
Variable Split
This sets up the dialog for two voices, one on each staff,
each with auto stem direction. This is a good starting point
for a piano staff when the fixed split option does not suffice.
Optimize two voices
In this preset, only voices 1 and 2 are activated, and set
up like this:
This way the first voice behaves as in single staff mode,
but if there are notes in the second voice, the stems of the
first one are set to Up.
Optimize four voices
This is like “Optimize Two Voices”, but with two staves.
Voices 5 and 6 are activated as well, with the same set-
tings as voices 1 and 2. This is the recommended way to
write piano music.
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There is a special stem feature for voice 1: If you set
this to Auto, the stem direction depends on the pitch
of the note as usual – except if there are voice 2 notes
in the bar, because then the voice 1 stems are auto
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matically set to Up!