Painfull use of thee explode feature when arranging

[Romanos]

@dankreider

@Derrek

Since voices can be filtered and copied separately, I was under the impression that the copy/explode function was only designed to split chords.

Yes, but the problem is that many orchestrators are not consistent in their uses of voices for the sake of shorthand. So two instruments may be sharing a staff, but there may be lots of instances where there is only one voice representing both: either both notes in the same voice, or a unison line represented by “a2,” for example.

An explode function would have to be quite smart to know how to parse the changes in voicings.

Indeed, Dan. Add to that the fact that Elaine Gould recommends sharing stems (read: voices) in many circumstances to make rhythms easier to read, it would be nearly impossible to cover all situations intelligently. Computers can only do so much.