MIDI channels for multiple voices on a staff
On a staff on which there are notes in more than one voice, how do we assign different MIDI channels to the different voices?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Doug
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The way to do that would be to first make sure you are using an instrument that has multiple channels assigned to it (eg, the "Men" or "Women" instruments, which are set up that way to allow for S/A and T/B splits - or violin, or trumpet, or electric guitar). Then add staff text and use its properties to assign the voices to channels as you see fit.
In reply to The way to do that would be… by Marc Sabatella
Hi, Marc,
How do I use staff text to assign MIDI channels?
I see how to use staff text to assign MuseScore so-called "channels" to a voice but not MIDI channels.
Doug
In reply to Hi, Marc, How do I use staff… by Doug Kerr
Once you have the channels in MIDI, simply go to View / Mixer, open up the channel strip for the instrument using the arrow button. You should see they are already set to different MIDI channels for each MuseScore channel, but you should be able to customize it further here.
In reply to Once you have the channels… by Marc Sabatella
Oh, yes, I knew that, but it got away from me on this situation!
Thanks.
Doug
In reply to Once you have the channels… by Marc Sabatella
Hi, Marc, would there be any way for me to revive this topic, and/or ask you to expand upon it even further? In my case, for example, I have four flutes, two to a stave, and would like to still hear each of the four flute-parts properly (if at all possible in MuseScore Studio)
In reply to Hi, Marc, would there be any… by NeptuniusOraculum
Can you explain what you mean by “properly”? You don’t need to do anything with MIDI explicitly to hear the parts.
In reply to Can you explain what you… by Marc Sabatella
The first and third flutes are notated in the first voice, the second and fourth flutes are notated in the second. The second voice tends to cut the first voice off at the notes shown in the attached screen grab
The same can be said for all other doubled wind/brass parts
In reply to The first and third flutes… by NeptuniusOraculum
Oh, that’s an interesting special case. The current behaviors with multiple voices are optimized more for cases of single instruments like piano. In your case, you’d be better off disabling playback of the shorter notes when they coincide, but I don’t know if there is a good answer for cases where the shorter notes starts after the longer and ends before it. That seems like a reasonable feature request to be able to support though. It doesn’t really relate to MIDI - MuseScore doesn’t necessarily use that internally anyhow. So if you do submit a feature request to GutHub, I’d focus on the playback result you want, not on anything about how you’d imagine it being implemented.
Meanwhile, the more complete workaround would be to use a separate invisible playback staff for the bottom part.
In reply to Oh, that’s an interesting… by Marc Sabatella
Disabling the shorter notes works great! Thnx again!