Use this feature to hide a Layer 2 half rest, for example, to give the appearance of a second voice entering on the third beat.
Finally, each layer may be taught to flip its stems up or down automatically, to help distinguish the multiple voices. When you’re placing expression marks, you can tell which layer is receiving the mark by the indicator in the lower-left corner of the screen, which identifies the current layer by number. You can view one layer at a time, or all simultaneously. Each layer can play back over a different MIDI channel and synthesizer patch, and each can have its own dynamics. Each staff in Finale has four transparent layers of music.