Auto stem direction in multi-voice measures
Is there any way to make stem direction follow the "auto" rules when you have more than one voice?
My score has two voices - melody in voice 1 and rhythmic cues in voice 3. I'd like voice 1 to follow the rules for automatic stem direction, but the default behavior is that all stems point up.
I know I can manually flip the stem direction, but would prefer to not have to do that.
Thanks,
Jerry
Comments
voice 1 and 3 have stems up, 2 and 4 stems down
So just use voice 2 for your rhythmic cues, Tools > Voices > Swap voice 2-3, then remove the voice 3 rests, right-click one, select, more, same staff, same voice, Del
In MuseScore 1 it was possible to change those defaults, not anymore since MuseScore 2
In reply to voice 1 and 3 have stems up,… by Jojo-Schmitz
Actually, I want the stems up on the cues, and the default positioning of rhythmic slashes for voice 3 (small noteheads above the staff) makes that voice perfect for cues. Because voice 3 consists entirely of slashes above the staff, with stems up, voice 1 doesn't need all stems to point in the same direction. In fact, it works much better if higher notes in voice 1 have stems down, which is what the auto behaviour would give me.
Voice 2 would fix the slashes to the middle staff line - that's definitely NOT what I want.
So it appears that manually flipping the stems in voice 1 is the only option.
In reply to Actually, I want the stems… by guitarboy
The other option is to add the rhythmic slashes as a separate staff.
In reply to Actually, I want the stems… by guitarboy
There was an attempt once to address some aspects of this - see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/2475 - but it never quite got there.
In reply to There was an attempt once to… by Marc Sabatella
Having struggled with rhythmic cues in Notion and Sibelius, I love how easy it is in Musescore. This one tweak (auto stem direction in voice 1) would make it even better. Note that I ran into the problem initially when I transposed a part. Musescore 3.1 easily took care of all the other layout changes required by the transposition, but I had to manually adjust the stem directions.