Counterpoint notation 2004-06-04 07:15 pm I'm writing a piano piece with several voices, somewhat of a fugue. To make it easier to notate, I'm writing it using three staves: two treble and one bass. After I'm done I want to layer the top two staves. However, there are significant stretches where nothing is going on in one of the top voices, so I've entered a (whole-measure) rest there (in order to keep the bar lines in synch). When I put the top two layers together, the rest still shows up, but it's not really necessary - but how do I make it either invisible or just not necessary? If I don't have a rest on that line, the bar line just goes to the left without lining up with the bar lines in the other two staves.Mike Quote Selected
Re: Counterpoint notation Reply #1 – 2004-06-04 10:59 pm hello Mike you can make the rests invisible by hihlighting them then going to the edit on the tool bar an choosing visibilty never for the selected rests the rests will then be greyed out in the editor but will not show up in the playeror printing john Quote Selected
Re: Counterpoint notation Reply #2 – 2004-06-09 09:52 pm John, thanks for the tip - it works.This is the fourth piece I've worked on, and it has gotten easier every time. I finished hooking it up to my sound card and now I don't have to print it off and take it to my piano to find out how it sounds.Mike Quote Selected
Re: Counterpoint notation Reply #3 – 2004-06-11 04:08 pm You can also move the rest up or down by rightclicking and changing the vertical offset in "Properties". Sometimes this is good when the rest is brief and you want to keep the voicing clear. Quote Selected
Re: Counterpoint notation Reply #4 – 2004-06-12 04:03 am You can move rests up and down with shift-arrow too. Lots of improvements and pleasant surprises in version 2, eh? Quote Selected
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