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contains notes in another voice, the stem directions of existing notes at the same rhythmic
position change automatically as necessary.
The quarter note symbol beside the caret changes to indicate which voice is currently selected.
Any notes input are input into the voice indicated by this symbol.
You can switch between voices as often as you like.
NOTE
If you have three or more voices on a single staff, you can only cycle through all the voices
in a set order. For example, if you have two up-stem voices and two down-stem voices, the
order is: rst up-stem voice, rst down-stem voice, second down-stem voice, second up-stem
voice.
You can show voice colors to check which notes are in which voice. You can also identify
voices by selecting individual notes and looking at the display in the status bar.
EXAMPLE
Caret when inputting notes into
the
rst up-stem voice
Caret when inputting notes into
the
rst down-stem voice
Caret when inputting notes into a
new, second up-stem voice
RELATED LINKS
Caret on page 157
Notes toolbox on page 144
Notes panel on page 146
Rhythmic grid on page 155
Inputting notes on page 161
Inputting notes using pitch before duration on page 165
Inputting bar rests into specic voices on page 188
Adding notes above/below existing notes on page 197
Changing the voice of existing notes on page 353
Voices on page 997
Status bar on page 32
Hiding/Showing notes alongside slash regions on page 872
Hiding/Showing voice colors on page 997
Inputting notes into slash voices
You can input notes into multiple slash voices, for example, if you want to indicate a precise
rhythm without specifying pitches. By default, the rst slash voice is up-stem, but you can add
extra slash voices both with and without stems, and switch between them as often as you want.
You can also input notes into new slash voices on a staff with existing notes. Once you have
created a slash voice somewhere on a staff, you can input notes into that slash voice anywhere
else on the same staff.
Write mode
Note input
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