[sib-access] Re: deleting every thing on one stave

  • From: Stephanie Mitchell <praisehimau@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:17:06 +1100

Thanks.  I'll try this later today.  I want to remove the notes 
from the bass part and re-write it.  I might be re writing the 
whole lot yet.  Composers do that all the time.  Just when you 
think it's done, you aren't.
Steph


> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kevin Gibbs" <kevjazz@xxxxxxxxx
>To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date sent: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:07:42 -0600
>Subject: [sib-access] Re: deleting every thing on one stave

>Steph,
>       Assuming that you only want to delete the notes and rests in 
one
>staff without deleting the staff itself, do the following:
>1.  Make sure that you are in the staff whose notes you wish to 
delete.
>2.  Under the Edit Menu, select the Select submenu and go to 
Select Bars.
>3.  You will be in a dialog with a from and through box.  You'll 
be in the
>through box.  Type the number of the last bar whose notes you 
wish to
>delete.
>4.  Tab to the next box.  Usually, the first note of the score 
will be
>selected in that box already.   If you want to delete from some 
point within
>a score that is not the beginning, type the number the bar at 
which you wish
>to start your deletion.  There is no way to begin your deletion 
at a point
>within a bar using this command.
>5.  Tab to the box that says make system selection and be certain 
that it is
>not checked.  This is important because if you have checked it, 
not only the
>notes, but also the very staves will be removed which will change 
the number
>of bars in your score.
>7.  Tab to and click OK.  You should find that you have empty 
bars on the
>staff whose notes you wish to remove.
>       As far as I know, this select command was not in Sibelius 3.  
I just
>discovered it myself and I think it's very cool.
>       There are also select all and select more commands.  I've 
done some
>fiddling with the select more command and, as far as I can tell, 
if you are
>on the first beat of a bar in one staff and choose select more, 
the entire
>bar will be selected.  However, if you are at the first beat of a 
bar in
>more than one staff, say a piano, for example and select more, 
nothing seems
>to happen.  Finally, it also appears that if you are on a beat 
other than 1
>in a bar and select more, nothing seems to happen.
>       Anyone else feel free to chime in and correct anything I've 
gotten
>wrong here.
>Kevin

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>Is there a way to delete every thing on one stave?
>Steph
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