Playback piano left and right hand separately
Hi am hugely frustrated. Really like MuseScore. I am trying to get MuseScore to playback the right and left and separately. I have tried to different approaches and neither works well at all.
I tried making the bass clef voice 2. It doesn't covert tied notes to voice and it leaves rests as voice 1. Even when I start from scratch it does not remove voice one rests. So that doesn't work for me.
I tried adding a different instrument for the bass clef. But my mixer doesn't look like the documentation. I doesn't list the 2 different instruments.
Yes I am running the latest greatest version.
Somebody please help me.
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In reply to Click the right panel … by Shoichi
Thank you. Got it to work had to unmute bass piano voices.
If your goal is to use the mixer to control the two hands, then make a score with two pianos. In the instruments dialog (press i to see it) delete the second staff from the first instruments and the first staff from the second instrument. You can double click a barline (besides the very first one) and drag the bottom box to the bottom of the second piano to make it look like a grand staff. After that, always start adding notes in voice 1 and use additional voices only when the rhythms on a single staff get too complicated. You can then do as Shoichi suggested and use the mixer to control each staff independently.
Another way if you don't need to use the mixer to control the two staves is to enter the dynamics, then right click one and choose select>All similar elements and, using the inspector (F8), change the dynamic range from Part to Staff and the dynamics will only affect individual staves. Doing as I suggest will change all of them at once, you can also change them individually as you add them if you want to.
In reply to If your goal is to use the… by mike320
Sorry if the question is a bit basic, but I'm new to MS. What if I want to play only one hand at a time in an existing sheet with only one instrument (piano)? I do that to understand how a composition is structured, not to compose myself. Shall I create a new sheet with two pianos and copy the content from the original sheet? That seems quite a piece of work.. If I understand the mixer well, I cannot solo or mute only one hand.
In reply to Sorry if the question is a… by pierofraterna
Press i, add the Instrument or the Stave
one hand at a time in an existing sheet with only one instrument Voices?
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/voices
In reply to Press i, add the Instrument… by Shoichi
Thank you for the test score. I get the point if I'm building the score myself. I'm a bit in doubt if I can do the same on an existing score. This would entail manually copying notes of the left and right hand to separate staves?
In reply to Sorry if the question is a… by pierofraterna
Actually, you can. If there is a single piano part with two staves, in the top half of the Mixer you will see two rows of voice buttons (1, 2, 3, 4) corresponding to the two staves. Just mute the voices for one staff or the other.
In reply to Actually, you can. If there… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you for the quick reply. However, it seems that the score (attached) uses a single voice for both hands, because if I mute voice 1, both hands are muted.
I also checked this thread: https://musescore.org/en/node/94416 but it still requires a multi voice staff.
In reply to Thank you for the quick… by pierofraterna
Each staff has four voices, and indeed each staff starts with voice 1. The top row is for the top staff, the bottom row for the bottom staff. You just told MsueScore to mute voice 1 in both staves,. That's not what you want, you just want to mute voice 1 (or probably all voices) in the top staff, or only in the bottom.
In reply to Each staff has four voices,… by Marc Sabatella
It works. Great! Thank you very much and Happy New Year!
In reply to Actually, you can. If there… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the tip. Is there any way to control the volume of the left and right hands, independently? When Musescore plays my score, the R-hand block chords kinda overpower the moving bass line in the L-hand. Using the mixer would certainly be preferable to, say, as a workaround, introducing dynamics markings into the score just to balance the relative volumes of the left and right hands. Thanks.
In reply to Thanks for the tip. Is there… by elraeburn@pacb…
You can do that if instead of one instrument with two staves, you create your score as two instruments of one staff each. You can also use Staff/Part Properties to change the instrument to something that has multiple sounds defined - like guitar, for example, then use staff texts to force one staff to one channel and the other to another, and then in the mixer you'll be able to v=control the channel volumes independently (and also set the sound back to piano).
In reply to You can do that if instead… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks.
In reply to Actually, you can. If there… by Marc Sabatella
OMG You are a life saver. That was so useful. I just hit all 4 numbers for any given row I wanted muted to be able to listen to left or right independently. This is going to help me play Element so much better if I have an idea of how it sounds when they are separated.
In reply to If your goal is to use the… by mike320
WOw. this should be a feature included in Musescore. It's a lot of work when you could select both hands in the mixer and pan them.
In reply to WOw. this should be a… by FedericoPacheco
In the years since this thread was started, the feature has been added. Just go to the mixer and see the two rows of mute buttons for the individuals voices, allowing you to play piano RH and LH separately.
In reply to In the years since this… by Marc Sabatella
Your explanation was so useful to me as I've just started to use Musescore. I got this program to learn Evgeny Khmara music. It really is helpful.
In reply to In the years since this… by Marc Sabatella
I cannot find the 2 rows of mute buttons for the individual voices so as to mute one of the staves of the piano..... is there any trick to make them to appear ? Thanks !
In reply to I cannot find the 2 rows of… by Jivaro
This thread is about an older version of MuseScore. In the current version, instead of using the Mixer, select the contents of the staff you want to mute then uncheck Play in the Properties panel.