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4. Playback & video In the rare case where you don’t want a dynamic to apply to both staves of a keyboard instrument, position it close to one staff, or outside the staves (i.e. above the right-hand staff or below the lefthand staff). If you don’t want dynamics to apply to both staves anywhere, switch off the Affect adjacent staff option in the Play Performance dialog. In this dialog you can also adjust the threshold for how far away from the staff a dynamic has to be in order for Sibelius to make it apply to the adjacent staff. For more details, 4.5 Performance. Where the number of staves used for an instrument changes, such as where an instrument divides into staves for separate players or later rejoins, you may need to put a hidden dynamic and/or playing technique (e.g. pizz., mute) at the start of the next system to match the dynamic/technique prevailing just before the staves changed. This is because playback effects are tracked along each staff – Sibelius doesn’t know if a player moves from one staff to another.
Silent notes and ignoring text/lines You can make any object (e.g. dynamics, notes) be ignored during playback by switching off all of its Play on pass checkboxes on the Playback panel of the Properties window – 4.6 Repeats. Alternatively, you can prevent particular noteheads playing by using the silent notehead type (shortcut Shift+Alt+9 or 9) – 2.25 Noteheads. You can also specify that all text in a certain text style should have no effect on playback by switching off the Interpret during playback option on the General page of Edit Text Style – 3.9 Edit Text Styles.
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