Force all stems up
Is there a way to make all stems in a particular staff (or whole score) point up? I seem to remember being able to do that in 1.3, but I can't find anything in the staff properties panel to say that all notes should have a stem direction of "up". Is there still an easy way to do this in the 2.0.x series?
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Ctrl+A;
Inspector->Notes;
Stem direction: Up
In reply to Ctrl+A; Inspector->Notes; Ste by Shoichi
That works. It seems that sometimes selecting too many notes makes MuseScore cranky and not in the mood for actually letting you mass-edit note properties.
In reply to That works. It seems that by duck57
Could it be that there are grace notes in the score? #85631: Range select -> "Notes" button in Inspector includes grace notes in list selection, disabling Inspector.
In reply to Could it be that there are by Isaac Weiss
That is almost certainly the case, since it's marching percussion that I'm writing for, and they use tons of grace notes and it's a common (though non-universal) convention to have all their stems point up.
In reply to That works. It seems that by duck57
There is a difference between selection a *range* and selecting *notes*. A range can also include rests, and of course, dynamic markings and tons of other things. So be sure to have only the notes selected if you wish to use controls that only apply to notes. One easy way to do this is to select the range then press the Notes button in the Inspector.
BTW, stems are automatically forced up in voice 1 if you have have notes entered into any other voice. That's normally the only situation where you'd want to have all stems forced up anyhow. But fi you some special reaosn to want stems up even though there are not multiple voices involved, the Inspector is indeed the way to do it.
In reply to There is a difference between by Marc Sabatella
I think the cause is from the bug about trying to select notes in your range also selecting the grace notes, which confuses the Inspector (see the other chain).
The use case for setting stem direction at the staff-level is that some marching percussion ensembles prefer all their stems to point up for their battery percussion, so whether you select the notes and flip the stems or set it as a staff setting really just is a workflow choice. The benefit to setting it at the staff level is that new notes will not need to be manually selected and flipped.
IIRC, the main reasons why they prefer all stems to point up is that it:
In reply to I think the cause is from the by duck57
Aren't all the battery percussion defined to have stems up already?
In reply to Aren't all the battery by Isaac Weiss
They are. I think my issue is from opening an old score from 1.3 with outdated instrument definitions (or maybe just converted from MusicXML from even older Finale files). Perhaps I should just re-enter all the notes with a modern template (since it's fairly short), rather than keep messing with the current files until they look nice.
(I've got a ton of old music floating around in various formats that I need to convert into MuseScore)