Working with Voices

Working with Voices

Many scores feature multiple voices within one staff. ScanScore is able to split these voices and display them separately.

In the Score Mode you can easily create voice excerpts or seperated staves from multiple voices in the Organize Menu with "Seperate Note". If in a choir score soprano and alto are written in the same staff, you can split it here into two staves for example. 

In the View Menu of the Score Mode you can display voice excerpts differntly.

(Please take a look at the Score Manual for this.)

But recognition mistakes can occur, depending on the complexity and quality of the original score. If there are too many or too few notes in a bar, ScanScore will highlight the bar during export. In this case, you have to go back to your score and resolve the issue.

The two most common recognition errors are the following: 

• Notes are attributed to the wrong voice
• Notes of different voices are mistaken for a chord.

How can you fix this? Here are three important options you have to edit these kinds of bars.

1) The most important command you should now if you scan in scores with multiple voices, is "Switch to voice" in the Notes Menu or the Note Context Menu. This option allows you to quickly switch between the voices during editing. This makes life easier for you by deactivating all notes that don't belong to this voice and can't be edited or deleted by accident.

2) The second way is "Change Voice". This is also found in the Notes Menu or the Note Context Menu. To move a note from one voice into another, select this note (or range) first. Then move it to the required voice with the "Change Voice" command.

3) If notes are combined to form a chord, you need the "Separate from Chord" command. This is found in the Notes Menu as well. First select the note you wish to cut off the chord. Make sure not to select the whole chord, only that one note. Now click "Separate from Chord". If you have to move the note into a different voice right away, select it again and perform the procedure described at 2).