[sib-access] Re: working with one than more voices in sibelius5.25

  • From: saeed Mirzazadeh <saeedm19@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 18:18:27 +0200

Hi Dave.
Thanks very much.
it was so useful for me too.
Regards,
Saeed

On 9/5/13, David G. Carlson <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, all voices on a given staff will play using the same instrument.
>
> Yes you can have different staves each with a single voicing and these could
>
> be different instruments. I presume you want to be able to more clearly
> discern the different voicings via the sounds?
>
> Recombining the voices onto a single stave may not be intuitive, so I'm
> appending a "tip or trick" from my collection that might help you with this.
>
> It is pasted herein without any further editing:
>
> You need to select the entire staff as usual, and then filter the selection
> to contain only items in one voice. There are short cut keys for doing the
> filtering. These are Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N, where N is the number of the voice.
> So,
> Ctrl+Alt+Shift+2 will filter the selection so that it only contains voice 2
> items.
>
> The important thing to remember is that when you paste the notes, they will
> keep there respective voice numbers. This means that if you want to copy
> voice 2 notes onto a staff of there own, you may need to move those notes
> into voice 1.
>
> Example: copying voice 2 notes from a staff containing two voices onto a
> staff of there own.
>
> 1. Go to the staff containing two voices.
> 2. Press Ctrl+Home then Ctrl+Shift+End to select the entire staff.
> 3. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+2 to select the voice 2 notes only.
> 4. Press Ctrl+C to copy these notes to the clipboard.
> 5. Press LeftArrow to clear the passage selection and return to a single
> selection.
> 6. Go to the start of the staff that the selected notes will be placed on.
> 7. Press Ctrl+V to paste the notes.
> 8. Press Ctrl+Home and the Ctrl+Shift+End to select the entire staff.
> 9. Press Alt+1 to place everything on the staff in voice 1.
>
> Some important things to note.
>
> After selecting the first staff you must not forget to press
> Ctrl+Shift+Alt+2.
> This ensures that the selection only contains voice 2 items; the voice 1
> items are discarded from the selection.
>
> After you've pasted the notes onto the new staff, you will actually have
> two
> voices on the staff. This is because the staff already contains voice 1
> items, even if they are only bar rests. The notes will still be in voice 2
> but the bar rests which belong to voice 1 will still be there. Moreover the
> notes will have stems pointing downwards which is not desirable.
>
> Selecting the entire staff and pressing Alt+1 puts everything in voice 1.
> Sibelius will attempt to merge the voices and because voice 1 only contains
> rests, it will be completely replaced by the items in voice 2, which will
> now be in voice 1.
>
> Hope this isn't too confusing.
>
>
> David G. Carlson
> Marketing / Sales Engineer
> RF Timing and Synchronization
> dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dmitry Budnikov" <6021635@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 2:44 AM
> Subject: [sib-access] working with one than more voices in sibelius5.25
>
>
> Hello!
>
> Is there any way to make different voices play with different instruments?
> I
> am not comfortable with voices in Sibelius, so I need to check from time to
> time whether I put everything into the correct voice or not. If there is
> not
> such an opportunity, can I write two voices independently on different
> staves and then automaticly properly combine them onto one staff. I
> understand of course, that I can write voices on the different staves, but
> I
> have no idea how to combine them. In Lime, which I use on the regular base
> in most cases it is doable.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Dmitry.
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