Can The Mixer Panel "Remember" Its Settings?

• Sep 25, 2012 - 17:29

First off, I wish to thank and congratulate the MuseScore developers, testers and users who have created such a powerful and useful application. I have been working with MuseScore on and off for the past two years and the refinements to the software in that time have been remarkable.

As one who worked as a hand copyist in the pre-computer days and as a user of both Sibelius and Finale (along with a few other, less powerful applications) since the computer came along to save us, I can assure you that MuseScore represents an outstanding achievement in design, utility and ease of use, not to mention a wonderful example of open source thinking and cooperation among the coders and user base.

I hunted through the forums to find out if there was some protocol for submitting feature requests to the development team, but could find nothing. Therefore, to help keep things uncluttered and unconfusing, I'll submit each feature request as a single post. Here goes.

The Mixer Panel

Is it possible to let the Mixer Panel "remember" its setting? The default appears to be five instruments on display when the panel opens. Granted, the panel does remember what five instrument group is displayed when you close and reopen the panel, but if you stretch the panel vertically (or horizontally) to display more instruments and then close the panel, when you reopen it you're back to the same five instrument display. Changing this behavior would be very helpful when working with the Mixer in large scores that contain many instruments.

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• Sep 26, 2012 - 00:17

Hi, Chen.

Thanks for your comments. I realize that certain settings are not "rememberable", although the Mute and Solo check boxes do seem to remember their settings when you reopen the panel. At least this is true in the nightly build for Windows.

What I was asking about is the ability of the software to remember the resized window position. When working with a large, multi-instrument score I will sometimes turn the monitor 90 degrees, then press Ctrl + Alt + Left Arrow (this works in Windows; I'm not sure about Macs) so the page displays in portrait mode on my monitor. This helps to eliminate a lot of up and down scrolling to locate the part(s) I want to work on. As a result, I usually stretch the Mixer Panel so it displays 10-15 instruments at a time. And because the Mixer Panel still takes up so much screen real estate, whenever I close the Mixer in order to see more of the score each time I reopen the Mixer I have to grab the window border and stretch it out again. Not an overwhelming problem but in the heat of working on the music and refining it's one of those niggly details that gets in the way of a smooth work flow.

A small matter but one that I think my suggested improvement will help to make MuseScore an even better application than it is now.

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