musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Clicking "Voice 2/3/4" on a rest should do something
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Your idea
Clicking "Voice 2" in this scenario does nothing.
I think it should behave much like it would if a note was selected: assigning the existing rest to Voice 1, and creating a new one in Voice 2, then adding gap rests to the rest of the bar as required.
In the case of a whole bar rest, it should replace the rest with specific duration rests in both voices as required.
Problem to be solved
It is quite fiddly to create notes in other voices, and seems to require a very specific workflow which is counterintuitive: first create a note in the wrong voice, then move it to the right voice.
This would enable some more flexible workflows.
(For instance, often a way I create a note of the right length is first convert a rest to that length, then press the letter key to turn it into a note. That doesn't really work here.)
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