On Jul 22, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Harold Owen wrote:
We're talking about a rolled chord that involves both hands and both staves, a common occurrence. Actually what you describe in your first paragraph works only for one staff, I believe, so it will not work for the whole chord unless you enter it in one staff and then use cross-staff to put the upper notes in the upper staff. The trouble with that is that there will be one stem connecting all notes, definitely not what we would ordinarily want. Of course, it's possible to white-out part of the stem, but that's an awkward kludge.
If the stems are turning the right way (ie, down on the LH and up on the RH) you can cross-staff it and then use the Double/Split Stem tool to separate them. I've done that a few times, but as soon as the stems go the wrong direction you need a different method.
I just finished a "Notturno" in honor of our dear former organist who died recently. The flute carries the melody, and the accompaniment has 6-note rolled chords involving both hands. Assigning the attack times took only a minute, then I simply copied the information and the symbol to several other rolled chords.
But presumably the copying isn't so helpful if the chords aren't all the same size.
The last time I had a piece with a lot of cross stem arpeggios, I made duplicates of the arpeggio articulation and adjusted the Change Attack values in the definition. For example, if there's three notes in the LH and three in the RH, the LH articulation is bottom = -256, top = -154; and the RH is bottom = -102, top = 0. In a few spots I even had separate layers, so it was even fancier. For those, your way probably would have been easier.
mdl
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