Emphasize 1 of 4 choral voices in 2-staves scores (1 instrument per staff)
Hi,
I couldn't find a way to emphasize (for playback, learning) 1 voice in 2-staves TTBB scores.
We have a lot of such, actually written in capella, but importing the capx files to MuseScore 2.2 works fine.
The problem seems to be, each staff (Tenor versus Bass) is just 1 instrument.
I checked https://github.com/Jojo-Schmitz/VoiceCaster, and handbook on Voices, Tools->Explode, or View->Mixer, neither could help here.
Is it possible to keep the 4 voices in 2 staves, but give them different instruments and volume each?
I'd like to export 4 learning mp3 files (1 per TTBB voice) from each mscz, emphasized by instrument and volume, but still the others in the background.
I would not mind to script something to manipulate the xml if MuseScore would support such mode (4 instruments in 2 staves).
But maybe there is a more official way, like running a command line tool, to produce 1200 files from the 300 TTBB capx files I have in mind.
Is there a work-around? What do you propose?
Tom
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This has been discussed earlier, it could get fixed by giving those voices extra channels in the instruments definition.
See https://musescore.org/en/node/269784, esp. https://musescore.org/en/node/269784#comment-822236, for an example Close Score SATB with channel switching
Workaround is to select one note of the desired voice, right click, select, more, same staff, same voice and then in inspector set the velocity.
BTW: that VoiceCaster plugin has never been ported to MuseScore 2.x. And it isn't really mine, I just put it on GitHub and added some fixes to it, quite a while ago. Original author is @underquark
You can change the instrument to trumpet, which will give you 2 midi channels. Assign one midi channel to one voice and one to the other. You can then change all of the instrument names as necessary.
See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/staff-properties#change-instrument
This will give you independent control over the voices in the mixer. If you don't like the note colors that are likely, then change the ranges in the instrument properties.
In reply to You can change the… by mike320
Yep, yet another workaround