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I am importing some rather complex orchestral arrangements and a lot of them come in with the staccato and sustained notes on the same line. A lot of these are also shown as Chords and horizontal and vertcle scales.
Is there an automatic way to dissolve these parts so that like phrases will be placed on their own lines? I don't relish the thought of doing each of these phrases one at a time.
Thanks,
Brian
Sun, 2012-02-19 - 13:24 Permalink
I'm afraid I do not understand your question. How do the imported figures look like and how do you want to have them look after the cleanup?
If figures are crowded with overlapping symbols/notes, there are multiple voices merged on the same midi track. You may need to use the voice separation feature during import.
Sun, 2012-02-19 - 16:01 Permalink
The track I am testing comes from the string line from "Mars" ("The Planets".) The separate voice features didn't work. It simply trades one phrase type for another. I tried it several different ways.
I've posted two pictures.
Import 1 shows the default without separate voices. Import 2 shows with import separate voices selected. Some helped, but I always obtained mixed phrase types. The default is actually better because the different phrase colors help me separate what is going on better.
The feature I am requesting would simply take these tracks and make several tracks that contain the different phrase type. I simply did it based on color.
I took 'Import 1' and did it myself manually and have posted it as separate.png. This took me ten minutes and was very tedious. I'd rather clean up or recombine some easy to read separate lines than be presented with the first.
BTW, I believe you refer to what I've shown as containers, but it helps me to call them tracks for this example.
Hope this explanation helps.
Sun, 2012-02-19 - 20:59 Permalink
Ok, I think I got it.
You can copy/paste the mixed phrase to new instruments (use "Phrase" menu) and then select all segments by symbol type (a menu action in "Vector") and delete them selectively. This should be the quickest method.
BTW: Regarding the terms: The pictures you posted are showing phrases and you were talking about different types of figure segments.