Lately I’ve been doing a lot of my orchestrations from a piano sketch which is effectively a reduction of all my ideas in (usually) 4 voices, separated on the grand staff just for clarity and ease.
However, when I select a part and wish to duplicate it to monophonic instruments in the orchestra, for all the down-stem voices I always have to remember to select “paste special > paste into voice > paste into up-stem voice 1.” When trying to work quickly I sometimes simply forget and end up with wacky unnecessary rests, or it slows me down (especially since I can’t do the alt+click paste method!)
For this workflow I was curious if there is a way to always paste into the up-stem voice 1 by default, or the selected/active voice on a staff (which are visible when the colors are on).
This would also make it a convenient when wishing to paste to other voices, I could select the voice first before pasting (rather than paste special).
Or put another way: to be able to copy/paste notes without voice data.
I don’t think this is necessary. Just do all your pastings, then select all your monophonic instruments and do change voice to whatever you prefer. All the ‘wacky’ rests should disappear.
Another method: Put the reduction staff and the destination staff next to each other and use Duplicate to Staff Above/Below. This copies into the primary voice (even if another voice does exist on the destination staff). This is also the case with the Move commands.
The manual reminds me that notes can also be moved with the mouse (which I never use). I tried it and found that this action does preserve voice assignment (just to offer complete info).
Thanks for replying, I should’ve specified I actually regularly do this especially once realizing something isn’t in the right voice (such as if I have the voice colors turned off). If I’m working with a normal staff that presumably only has two voices I’ll hit ‘v’ to simply switch a large selection en masse. But was basically looking for a faster way to paste without voice data just to skip that step
Thanks! That’s interesting that move & duplicate does not preserve voice data, but that copy and move with mouse does.
I don’t often use filtering so perhaps this would be a good excuse to put that to use for me, so I could perhaps filter piano + whatever other staves I need to duplicate to.
This pastes into the selected/active voice (which is typically up-stem voice 1 by default on most blank staves). This is exactly what I was looking for originally. Happy discovery!
