Mute individual bars
Is it possible to mute individual bars in a stave on playback?
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Only by fiddling with velocity offsets.
Probably more trouble than it's worth.
Ah OK, thanks. I'm arranging scores for solo saxophone and electric guitar and I'm currently using stemless notes with slant square heads in the guitar stave, but I obviously don't want them to play back unless there's a guitar solo as in the extract attched. I think there's a model guitar bar somewhere but I've never managed to work out how to use it. I guess I'd better revisit that because I've got quite a few of these to do!!
In reply to Ah OK, thanks. I'm by Peter B
Enter the slash notation (stemless notes with slant heads) as a second voice, wherever they appear. Then by right clicking and using the context menu, you can select / more / same voice.
Once all the slashes are selected and highlighted, you can use the context menu again (by right clicking on a highlighted slash) and using Note Properties set the velocity to zero. (also, velocity type set to 'user')
This should mute all the slashes, yet the guitar solo (being voice #1) will play.
In reply to Try this? by Jm6stringer
Brilliant - thanks jm. It's actually turned out to be simpler than that. All I've done is select the stemless notes with slash heads and set their velocity to user 0 and that's done it. I haven't had to use voice #1/voice #2. These are going to be little student practice pieces, and now I've got the template I can crack on with it. Thanks again.
PS: There are actually two mistakes in the attachment, but it was a first draft !!
In reply to Brilliant - thanks jm. It's by Peter B
Fwiw, the slash notation plugin (which you can download via the olugins menu at right of this page) automtes this prcess - creating the notes, removing the stems, changing the head, setting the velocity to 0 (actually 1, so the payback cursor will still follow them). It will also create rhythm notation for you converting existing notes nto slash heads but keepng the stems and moving them to the center line, etc. But it isn't doing anything you aren't dong already - it just simplifies the process.
In reply to Fwiw, the slash notation by Marc Sabatella
Excellent Marc, thanks. While I'm here, could you please tell me how to set the chord entry cursor to advance by one note (beat) at a time rather than by one bar at a time when you press Tab. Thanks.
In reply to Excellent Marc, thanks. by Peter B
Use the arrow keys.
In reply to Use the arrow keys. by xavierjazz
No that doesn't do it. The arrow keys don't enter the chord, they just move the typed text along the bar.
In reply to No that doesn't do it. The by Peter B
Sorry I wasn't clear. I was referring to moving the cursor by beat, although that may not be what you mean.
On re-reading, I think the facility you want is the space bar, which moves the chord entry box from note to note.
In reply to Sorry I wasn't clear. I was by xavierjazz
Yes - tab moves by measure, space moves to next beat *or* note. For 2.0, there will also be semicolon, which will always move beat by beat and not stop for notes - useful in passages with lots of eighths or sixteenths.
In reply to Sorry I wasn't clear. I was by xavierjazz
Ah, OK, thanks.
No. However, you can change the dynamic to pppppppp and it does basically the same job. Future short cuts
In reply to No. However, you can change… by gearbear300
You can also select all of the notes by selecting the measure and clicking "Notes" in the inspector then unchecking "Play" in the inspector. I don't know if that existed when this thread started. Much has changed in 7 years.
In reply to No. However, you can change… by gearbear300
Another method that didn't exist then was the idea of adding an instrument change from the Text palette, which gives you a new Mixer channel you could then mute.