Re: Gray notes
Reply #1 –
G'day Tella,
I'm not quite sure about the phenomenon you're seeing, but it sounds like a combination of things.
The grey and black note on the same staff suggests that there are 2 staves layered on each other.
To confirm this, click the |View| menu and check |Allow Layering| - if it is ticked then click on it to turn layering off - this will separate any staves that are layered over each other.
Arrgh! 'ang on a tick...
OK, I just did a quick test and imported a MIDI with lyrics. The lyric staff is greyed out and each individual note is muted. Their purpose is to give a place to hang the lyrics on. It is a single line staff which was layered on the staff above it.
NWC has considerable flexibility. A separate lyric staff that gets layered onto other staves as required is a common practice. I use it regularly when I write arrangements for the stuff we do at church so that I can have a part with correct lyric layout even though the notes for the instrument don't necessarily occur at the same point in time as the lyric would require.
Each object (note, rest etc.) on this lyric staff is |Visibility|Never| - this is a property of each object. Thus, the lyrics will show on your printout (Check in |Print|Preview|), but nothing else on the staff will print.
They are grey so that their presence is known in the editor, and that they will be hidden in the printout.