Mute voice buttons not working in mixer
Hi people, I am working on a small snippet of a song and need to be able to play each Voice on its own. I started with the barbershop template and then added the notes using a different Voice for each vocal part. However, I can't mute the parts in the mixer in any useful way — if I mute everything except Voice 4 I still hear Voice 3 etc, what gives?
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You have 2 staves, with in each, 2 voices . In the 1st stave you have muted 1.2.3 voices (unuseful, cause there is only 1 and 2 but in the 2nd stave nothing is muted so, you hear 3 and 4, try to mute voice 3
In reply to You have 2 staves, with in… by Raymond Wicquart
Thank you Raymond, for making me feel really dumb! I hadn't realised the mute voices was on a per stave basis. You live and learn, I suppose. Seriously though, thank you for taking the time to respond.
In reply to Thank you Raymond, for… by dyrck
Also note that you are not making best use of voices. Each staff can have up to 4 voices. You should always have voice 1 present in any staff and use extra voices as needed. In this case you should be using voices 1 and 2 in the lower staff and not voices 3 and 4. Yes, that really is voices 1 and 2 in the upper staff and voices 1 and 2 in the lower staff. As you are not using voice 1 in the lower staff you have whole measure rests showing - the empty voice 1.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/voices for a more detailed description of how to use voices in MuseScore.
In reply to Also note that you are not… by SteveBlower
This makes much more sense now I know that each staff has four voices to itself. It would probably help if I spent more time reading the manual. Thank you for your comment, it's much appreciated.