Move note up/down to next staff
Hi!
Is there a shortcut to move this note from piano bass to treble?
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And is there a shortcut to move select staff above/below?
Hi!
Is there a shortcut to move this note from piano bass to treble?
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And is there a shortcut to move select staff above/below?
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The is no way to move a single note from one chord to a chord in another staff. If the note is not part of a chord you can use cross-staff notation (ctrl+shift+arrow) to move the note (or an entire chord) to the other staff.
On the last comment, if you mean you want to extend the selection from one staff to include an adjacent staff then shift+arrow extends the selection one staff at a time.
In reply to The is no way to move a… by mike320
Yes, I noticed I could take the whole chord up/down,
but that's usually not what I want.
In reply to The is no way to move a… by mike320
I'm wondering if it's possible to add some flexibility to the split point of grand staff instruments. As a brass player, I often don't get the keyboard parts right first time around.
In other instances, as when I import midi files, I often get some crazy cross-staff notation. So far, it seems the only solution in such cases is to fix (re-enter) each note that is in the wrong staff.
Notator had a wonderful feature called Flexible Split Point, with which you could draw a curved line on your score to divide notes between staves. (You could also toggle single/split staves with a single key.)
Regards,
Tom
In reply to I'm wondering if it's… by toffle
In theory, the split function during MIDI import is already far more sophisticated than that - it's a flexible split point that is chosen automatically based on some almost AI-like heuristics. Although I agree the Notator function was cool and it could be nice someday to have something like that in MsueScore as well for fixup of MIDI import. Just a matter of priorities...
In general, it won't often be possible to move a note in this way, since there may not be a place to move it to (the destination chord may be a different duration, or there may indeed be no chord at all on that beat). So it will often require you to make a decision about how you want to handle the situation.
That said, it does seem like it could be useful in those cases where it happens to be obvious like here. Right now, there is a little trick to do the job using cut & paste:
To be honest, I'm not sure why this works - the second swpa really shouldn't do what it does since nothing is selected at that point, and indeed there do seem to be some glitches in this process sometimes. But anyhow, something you could consider.
In reply to In general, it won't often… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks!
That's a nice trick. Works :)
In reply to In general, it won't often… by Marc Sabatella
btw: It should not be harder technically/musically than shifting a note from voice 1 to voice 2
In reply to btw: It should not be harder… by G-Sun
Good point, and ideally we would be able to reuse much of that code. Although of course, moving a note between voices also only works "sometimes" and for the same reasons.
In reply to btw: It should not be harder… by G-Sun
agree.
In reply to In general, it won't often… by Marc Sabatella
Without the reliance upon the glitchy swap with clipboard function:
I do realise that this requires you to remember the letter name and accidental of the original note, but I think it should be manageable with only one thing remember. This should keep working even after the swap function has been fixed.
Also, this method can require one less action in most cases (when you don't need to move the note after input at all) ;-)
In reply to Without the reliance upon… by Louis Cloete
See also this thread
In reply to Without the reliance upon… by Louis Cloete
Yes, this would be the sort of default method :)
In reply to Without the reliance upon… by Louis Cloete
If you add the new note first and delete the note you wanted to move afterwards, you don't even have to remember that much ;-)
In reply to If you add the new note… by drowo
True, but consider more than 1 note,
and the the difference in 1 dedicated action vs. doing it this way.
And then going through a larger score with many such adjustments back and forth :)