Alternative Ways of Handling Voices

If you understand the relation between voices and MIDI channels, you can also use more advanced ways of moving notes into voices.

  • You can use the Logical Editor to move notes into voices, based on other more complex criteria, such as their pitch and length. You must then set up the Logical Editor so that the MIDI channel of the notes that meet the criteria changes to that of their voice.

  • If you enter notes using Step Input, you can change the MIDI channel on your input device and directly enter notes into separate voices.

  • You can set the MIDI channel for the track to Any to play back each voice on a different MIDI channel. This allows you to listen to each voice separately.

  • You can use the Input Transformer to assign a specific key range to a MIDI channel and thereby automatically put notes into voices when recording.

  • For brass and vocals, you might record each voice on its own track and use the Merge All Staves function to automatically copy each recording to a separate voice on a new track.

  • When you have assigned parts to voices, you can use the Extract Voices function to create one track out of each voice.