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Alright, I think I've read on MOTU's site something that suggests that in Quickscribe view, you can have multiple voices per staff. What I'm hoping this means (but haven't been able to figure out how to do) is that I can view multiple MIDI tracks collapsed into 1 Quickscribe notated staff?

Essentially, does anybody know how to take, for instance, a Violin 1 part, comprised of maybe 6 seperate tracks covering a legato patch, a pizz patch, etc., but have Quickscribe collapse all of the Violin 1 MIDI tracks into one clearly readable staff. In other words, if I'm writing for 5 string sections, and each section has 6 MIDI tracks each loaded with a different effect or bowing, I'd love to look at Quickscribe editor and see the various articulations displayed something more akin to a score with only 5 lines, instead of 30 lines.

Is there a way to do this? Even Finale can collapse tracks...

Thanks!

Steve

Since the earliest days of score-writing software for the Mac -- and I had the very first one -- it has been painfully evident that what makes a good score does not make a good sequence, and vice versa. I have always duplicated my sequence for the score, then I work on it to make it ideal for scoring. Smarter algorithms have made less work necessary, but I kind of doubt that we'll ever see a scoring algorithm that can take a sensitive performance and render it precisely into bars and beats, mordents & trills, chords, clefs, and semiquavers.

I do not know if MOTU has added that feature or not. It would be nice, indeed, but I do think you can invisify selections. I guess that still doesn't put multiple parts on the same staff. It may do it; I seem to remember reading something along the lines of what you described, but I so seldom use Quickscribe these days that I really don't know if it's changed. Study the menus and see if you find something. Let us know if you do!

Of course Finale does that; it's the most fully-featured engraving software on the planet. Quickscribe is basically a lead-sheet generator with enough extras to do fairly simple scores. Which brings me back to duplicating your sequence to make a good score from it; the more unambiguous you make the sequence -- quantized notes, collapsed parts, clear key changes, simple and sectional tempo markings, and so forth, the less time you'll spend trying to fix the score in Quickscribe.

Shooshie