Start Voice / End Voice

[Christian_R]

@billstevns

Can you show me a tiny example of how this would work?

Hi @billstevns, I made a detailed video to show how Start Voice/End Voice and Remove Rests work and correlate to each other.
(Generally it is suggested to use the Remove Rests command, because Start Voice in particular sometimes doesn’t work, as there are complex calculation that only Remove Rests can do *. You can then remove the Start or End Voice property, where needed):

(*) See also here:

Starts Voice property rarely works

The specific conditions under which the Starts voice property takes effect are complicated. Without auditing the code or asking the developer who originally implemented it to give me his best recollection of all of the conditions, I can’t tell you for sure. The fundamental complexity is that, in common with some other properties, the Starts voice property does not operate atomically, i.e. it depends on the properties set on other notes or rests in the same voice. This is the main reason why we…