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Polyphonic voicing
Moving notes between voices
Manually
To manually move notes to another voice, proceed as fol-
lows:
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.
3. On the submenu, select the voice to which you want
to move the notes.
Only the activated voices are available on the menu.
• You can also 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 onto new
tracks (see “The Explode function” on page 572) 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 that “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 an-
other 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 goes to
the first voice, the notes with the second highest pitch
goes to the second, and so on.
Bass To
Lowest Voice
When this is activated, the lowest notes always ends up
in the lowest voice.