Cross-stave arpeggio
Submitted by yingdat on April 5, 2009 - 7:45pm.
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If there is a way to get cross-stave arpeggio (which is not uncommon in piano scores, for example), I would apprciate being told how. If not, I would make that a feature request.
If you mean a written out arpeggio see cross staff beaming. If you are asking whether the squiggly arpeggio line can cross both staves, I do not believe it can yet.
has anyone been able to verify that some squiggly arpeggios work and others don't? I first mentioned this problem here: http://musescore.org/en/node/1319
If you listen to the file, every chord is supposed to be arpeggiated, but there are a few that aren't.
@MDMilford: When I listened to it the first time, my guess was it had something to do with having so many arpeggios right after each other. Another thing I noticed (if I remember correctly) changing the tempo changed which arpeggios played back correctly and which sounded like block chords.
I went to your original post, downloaded the score and did a little experiments on it, and I can confirmed that your suspicion was correct: Some of the chords are indeed not arpaggiated. The audio impression is further confirmed by examining the midi file's note events. And the behavior is the same whatever tempo you are using, though the effects are more easily discernable at some tempo than others.
This actually open a whole can of worms regarding midi output (and playing of scores, since I assume the same mechanism is used to generate the midi events to feed the midi file maker and fluidsynth). I will switch over to continue the discussion in MDMilford's original thread on arpeggios.
I did mean the squiggly arpeggio line crossing both staves. So please make that a feature request. Thanks.