Hi all! I’ve searched the forum and I couldn’t find this specific request, but my apologies if I missed anything. I am wondering if it might be possible to add an option to have rests in secondary voices ONLY appear within a specific BEAT, rather than across an entire measure, when notes in those voices are added. I’ve been working a lot with closed-score choral music (SA on one staff, TB on another), and my preference is to use a single voice on each staff when the music is homophonic, and only split to a secondary voice on a beat-by-beat basis when necessary. The current situation is certainly passable, but does require a lot of use of the Remove Rests command. It would be great to have a global option to say whether I want the second voice to fill in rests across the entire measure, or just for one beat at a time.
In a picture: I’d love to set an option to get this second measure by default, rather than the first:
Unless I’m much mistaken, using the Remove Rests command on an entire flow also deletes regular rests in the primary voices, so unfortunately that isn’t a viable solution here.
Hi @apratt31, here another approach using the voice filter, before applying remove rests:
Also: if unwanted rests are removed, you can just select the note just before or after the rest (depending on the case) and deactivate the start-voice and/or end-voice property, undoing so the removed rest.
That said, this kind of things are automatically done/manageable using condensing. But condensing is not jet fully compatible with voice+lyrics instruments.
Yes–what I’d like to see is an additional option in the “Rests in Additional Voices” section of Notation Options that specifies whether I want implicit rests to fill an entire bar, or only up to a single beat where there is multiple voice content.
Thank you to those who are offering workarounds–this isn’t a question of “how do I get this result,” but rather a feature suggestion to make getting there automatic.
