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. > > If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message > with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: > sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message > with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: > sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx