Four hands notation (four staffs)

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aria1121
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Post by aria1121 »

So recently I created a MIDI for four hands, rewritten from an ancient book I had laying aroung. While Synthesia plays the secondary tracks, I play the primary lines. I don't exactly know how you call those (systems?) but I mean that you get sheet like this; where you have 4 bars:
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Nicholas
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Post by Nicholas »

When I do another pass on the sheet generator for Synthesia 9, I'm hoping to get a lot closer to the ideal of each staff belonging to a single hand (changing clefs as necessary, etc.). Though in a MIDI with many tracks, it would be easy to quickly fill the screen with staffs if Synthesia went with one per track. That wouldn't work very well.

A simpler scheme that would work in most cases: each hand gets its own staff and any other notes are placed on some third staff? The utility of showing notes you're not playing yourself is already a little questionable, so that solution doesn't feel like too big of a compromise.

In this case, I'd recommend hiding the sheet for the tracks you're not playing yourself.
aria1121
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Post by aria1121 »

Ok, sorry for late responding.
Maybe this could come in useful when we have the sheet-only screen, I suppose.
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