3.5. Use Second Voice

Use Second Voice

Selecting current voice

One-liner: click the upper or lower half of a staff for selecting first voice or second voice respectively.

Explanation:

As outlined in the article dedicated to Voice Nodes, voice handling was entirely revamped in MAIDENS 1.5 and you can now directly access the needed voice by selecting the upper or lower rectangular sub-areas of a staff in the current measure.

Also, adding or removing Voices is not possible anymore in MAIDENS 1.5; the only operation that is now available is voice nudging: you can use the nudge buttons (see Toolbar UI) to move a voice up or down among an instrument's available staves.

Conversely, there is no editable Voice property left in the Editor.

Swapping voices

One-liner: select second Voice and nudge up, or select first Voice and nudge down.

In theory you could do more than swaping adjacent voices, e.g., in a Piano score you could move second voice of the bass staff as the first voice of the treble staff (which would push all remaining voices one slot downward: former first voice of treble becomes second voice of treble, former second voice of treble becomes first voice of bass, and former first voice of bass becomes second voice of bass). But, unless you also manually transpose the nudged voice, there is little musical use for this procedure.

Nota bene: you can nudge voices across all staves a Part currently uses (some Parts can be made to use more or less staves, see the Part Node article for details).

See Add a Note Rest or Chord for information on how to add music to selected Voice.