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Hi all,

I am new to this forum. I joined because I have a burning question that someone here may have the solution.

This is what I would like to do:

I would like to assign different notehead shapes to the different notes of the chromatic scale. For example, a triangle notehead for all C notes, a diamond notehead for all E notes, a half-oval for all G# notes etc... The result that I am seeking to achieve is that notes such as B#, C and Dbb will still be notated as before except that the notehead shape used for each of them will be a triangle (because they are all essentially the same note).

I have been playing around with the Finale Percussion Map, but it apparently requires that staff position be fixed along with the notehead when re-assigning noteheads to MIDI notes. What I need is to be able to assign a notehead shape to a MIDI note without having to fix the staff position for it. So a B# will still be notated as a note with a sharp in front of it on any of the B-note positions of the treble and bass staves, the C will still be notated as a note without accidentals, and the Dbb will still be notated as a note with two flats in front of it. In other words, they will all be notated as they were in the traditional notation except that the notehead used for all of them (the B#, C and Dbb example) will be a triangle.

The idea behind this feature request is essentially the same as the one explained in this patent:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6284961.pdf - except that instead of using different colors, different notehead shapes are used to accommodate musicians with color-blindness.

Can somebody please help me with this? Can this feature I am looking for be done in Musescore?

I am hoping that this can be done using the Percussion Map and be made into a template, rather than a plug-in. If this needs to be created as a plug-in, is it something that I can do myself ?

Thank you in advance for all your responses.

Troy

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