Boomwhacker colors on a chord?

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jazzmanjim
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Post by jazzmanjim » Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:22 pm

I can get boomwhacker colors when there is one note on a stem. How do I get many different boomwhacker colors on the same stem when printing a chord? Currently all the notes in a chord are the same color.


bobp
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Post by bobp » Mon Feb 27, 2017 8:08 pm

You can't.
The window tells you what you have to do. Each not of the chord must be a different voice and not on the same stem.
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Post by bobp » Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:43 pm

On this page:
http://www.sibelius.com/download/plugin ... category=5

is a plugin suite that might help. Colored Notehead Styles. Might be more work than you want.
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Post by musikai » Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:18 pm

You are on Sibelius 7, right? Then the plugin suite really is the only way to go. Sibelius 8 was developed further and can color individual notes of a chord, but Sibelius 7 requires the workaround with the special colored Notehead Styles.
It isn't difficult to use but I suggest to apply it on a copy of your score because it adds a whole bunch of Notehead Styles and Symbols that might be difficult to get rid of, if you decide you don't need colored notes.
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