On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 16:37 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
Hi Richard,
[...]
I do have a problem with assigning instruments to staffs with a
melody
line and already extant verses.
If you assign an instrument to such a staff the verses all disappear
and
have to be reinstated.
This may be deliberate,
No, it's a bug, nasty because it destroys your work without warning.
I've put a fix in but it is only the same as happens if you switch to
say piano from flute - it creates the new instrument and invites you to
copy stuff across... What you would do to temporarily change the sound
of the staff is to call up
Command: Built-in Staff Properties
Change the built-in properties of the current staff
Location: Object Menu ▶ Staffs/Voices ▶ Staff Properties
Internal Name: StaffProperties
and change the instrument sound in the MIDI tab. (Assign instrument
changes the name, indent and range of notes that are black in the
display)
but I only wanted to make it a Flute temporarily
to produce a distinguishable midi line over chords (default piano)
and
make the melody line stand out.
It also happens if you assign a guitar to the line (and it is
possible
to sing and play at the same time). :-)
Is it possible to reduce the volume of one stave compared to
another;
yes, the same MIDI tab lets you change the volume.
the midi of the piano staff is rather dominant and of course pp and
ff
don't filter through to midi.
??? The should do - have you got the "Always full Volume" checked in
the Playback Control panel?
Richard