Here’s something I have to do quite a lot. Either I will have doubled something, or played in a few notes as chords, and then later will separate them into different voices. Currently, my method is to select everything, then use filter (select bottom note, select top note, etc etc) and with the notes I want selected, I then hit Shift V to create a new voice from them.
I have assigned a jump bar alias for the filtering (fb - filter bottom, ft - filter top). It all works well, buuuut maybe it could be done more efficiently. I was searching around wondering if there is a hidden key command I’m not aware which does exactly this in one step - split all notes into different voices?
Thanks. Wanted to see first if there was something I wasn’t aware of – even after years of use I’m still always discovering some new trick. For example only recently I discovered the alt+U “Split by Rhythmic Grid Resolution” which is an incredible time-saver, since prior to that I was doing such rhythmic editing and doubling tasks manually.
Unfortunately I tested the macro and honestly it works even less nicely (I skipped select all since I would want it on a specific selection). Change voice by default will create an upstem voice 2; so then I created a macro to use shift+V to create a new downstem voice 1, but then quickly realized I would have to have a different macro on a staff where that voice has already been created, by using simply ‘V’, to avoid the creation of unnecessary new voices. Finally I noticed after recording a macro using the jump bar, when the script finishes it leaves the jump bar active on the screen (although when recording the macro I closed out of it / esc).
Long way of saying oh well - we tried! Will be faster to take each step manually via jump bar in context than accessing different macros to save one step. Could be a handy shortcut if the devs are reading
I use a key command to select the bottom notes. And you could probably create a keycommand to paste special into downstem voice 1. So I am quite confident you could create a custom key command to perform all these steps in one go (create a macro that does that, open it in a text app and create the key command in the json file, as we used to do some time ago )
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