Select instrument per instrument not voice?

[djae88]

Hi, I'm not sure this title is right, haha... I'm bad at English

in this example above, first staff is for vocal and second, third staves are for piano part
and I don't think there are many people who need to change the piano part (second and the third) seperately.
because it was originally designated as one instrument (by writer)

So I think it's better to show select option per instrument, not voice

I came up with this idea, because of some writer's sheet gets more voices than staves in one instrument (for no reason),
and It doesn't look good.

I'm trying to do this myself but it's difficult for me
If you update this, it will be of great help

Thanks :)

[jimutt]

@djae88 Sorry for the late reply!
It's a good topic you're bringing up here. And I agree that in the example you posted it would really make sense to control playback per instrument and not per voice.

The reason to why I am currently not defaulting to that behavior (I actually tried that first) is because it can differ quite much how the instruments are specified in the Music XML. For example I had some coral pieces where piano was set as instrument for all for voices. Although it was set for a standard 4 voice SATB.

Which lead to the decision to make it per voice. But, I think a much a more sensible choice would be to default to selecting the playback instrument per "instrument". But offering individual control for all voices as an additional option.

The progress has been quite slow here lately, but I'd still like to address the previous issues you and some other persons have reported, as well as adjusting this. So I'll hopefully be able to look into it soon 🙂 PR's are also welcome

[djae88]

Thank you for consideration, I'm looking forward to it!