Split staff function for live MIDI input on 3.5

• Sep 24, 2020 - 22:19

Having read Marc Sabatella comments and page 198 of the Manual, I was looking forward to using the split staff function to (imperfectly) separate RT and LT hand live MIDI input.

I am a adult Covid re-beginner (any of you out there??). I watch a You Tube piano tutorial on a song and like to capture in on sheet music. Then I go back and note the cords etc (helps me learn cords as I was taught classical/ sight reading as a child). PREVIOUSLY I had been starting w the grand staff and then doing one hand at a time.

This time I tried opening a Trebel clef only. Right clicking on first rest and selecting split staff. Once I have created both T and B Clefs then I selected C4 to split.... Didn't work. If I start in T Cleft then all notes stay there and visa versa.

Don't want to get into a debate about other software or how people wish it could be better. Even as intended it will "split" my time in half.

Thanks,

Rob

Comments

jeetee

• Sep 24, 2020 - 22:50

> This time I tried opening a Trebel clef only. Right clicking on first rest and selecting split staff. Once I have created both T and B Clefs then I selected C4 to split.... Didn't work. If I start in T Cleft then all notes stay there and visa versa.

Your scenario is unclear to me. For split staff I right-click an empty part of the staff, not a rest. The command creates the additional staff, not something I have to do myself (so I don't understand your "once I have created" comment).

Consider attaching the file you've started from and then step by step walking us through what we should do to see the failure.