Moving Voices
When moving a line of music in voice 1 to voice 2 or 3 (and presumably 4) using Ctrl+Alt 2 creates a set of rests in voice 1 which have to be manually made invisible before printing
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That is correct. The rests in voice 1 indicate that voice 1 is resting while voice 2 is not. Without those rests the voice 1 player/singer would not know they should not be playing/singing.
The question is, why are you moving the notes to voice 2? If you then want to add voice 1 later you will he overwriting those voice 1 rests. If not, the rests are needed.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/working-multiple-voices for more information on how and why to use multiple voices.
If you really want those rests invisible then right click on one and select similar same voice. Then you can make them all invisible in one go with shortcut V. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/selecting-elements#select-similar
In reply to That is correct. The rests… by SteveBlower
Hi Steve
Thanks for your reply. I just thought it might be nice in a trio arrangement for kids to have each stave in a different colour using voices. The "select same" option may make it worthwhile, so thanks for that.
Regards
Carl
In reply to Hi Steve Thanks for your… by carlvaughan@bt…
But why not use voice 1? You should always start by using voice 1 in each stave and use higher numbered voices only when necessary.
In reply to But why not use voice 1? You… by SteveBlower
+1
This problem falls in the category of self-inflicted injuries.