Score: Changing 'split' point (for different hands) throughout a piece

Question

I don't do a massive amount of score work, but when I do, it's usually single staff stuff. However I have some piano pieces I need to print and present in full glory and I'm stuck already...
Basically, I obviously need to define the left and right hand parts between the treble and bass clefs, but no matter where I set the split point in 'Staff Styles' its never convenient for the whole piece. So for example I can set it to D3 for the first 4 bars, but then a C3 note enters which needs to be played by the right hand, but its showing in the bass clef.
How do I remedy this so I can choose which line a note appears on depending on which hand it should be played with. There's a large range on most of the pieces so I'm going to need to figure this out...
Hope that all makes sense. Look forward to figuring it out (not to mention a whole load of other issues I'm yet to encounter!).
Cheers - Sidx

Answer 1

hi sidereal ... here's the steps you need:
1 - Open Score Editor>Layout>Staff Styles
2 - Go to the box on the left hand side and with the downward arrow and select a Piano Style
3 - Just above that box (where you see New and Edit) select New and then Duplicate Style
4 - It will say Piano*copied - click on the box and rename that of your choice say "Sidereal Piano"
( the reason you do this is because you might want to keep the original template of that piano style for other uses)
5- Now look along until you see the final column Assign and underneath Chan and Split -assign each channel a different midi channel ( say 1 and 2) and assign the split point as you wish ( it doesnt really matter where this is because you can still shift individual notes up or down just by changing their channel).
6 - At this point, whatever midi notes you have already played in will all be randomly part of one clef. You can use the voice separation tool to draw a squiggly line between the notes, and they will drop down to the bass clef - or as others have recommended select those notes you dont want in the treble and change midi channel - or + 1 by key command
7 - You can play in your piano parts, join all the regions and then in Score Editor assign the whole lot to your custom 'Sidereal Piano' style and follow the above procedure
hope that helps...
music spirit