Turn off the enforcer!
It would be lovely if I could just use the various elements of the program to add notes to a staff willy-nilly, without the program trying to make me do it correctly. I know that seems like a bad idea, but one of the reasons I'm trying to put all my music into this format is so that I can clean up scores well enough to be able to READ THEM! That means taking out extraneous stuff that clutters up the score. I'm not concerned with the score being "correct." I just want to be able to see the notes!
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what is that 'extraneous stuff that clutters up the score'?
In reply to what is that 'extraneous by Jojo-Schmitz
Take a look at Reunion, the example that comes with the program. There are things like dynamics notation (mf) and poco rit., cresc., tempo primo. There are slurs and ties affecting almost every measure, including the bass clef. On the first measure of the third staff, there are little lines under the chords in the treble clef and over the chords in the bass clef. There are lines for decrescendo and repeats.
As I said, I am trying to make these scores READABLE by my old wonky eyes. They're not for anyone else to use, and I know the music well enough to know where to crescendo and decrescendo, repeat, etc. All I want is the time signature, the key, and the notes.
In reply to Take a look at Reunion, the by cmwilson2
So you want to get rid of all the ornaments in an existing score?
They are all optional, just select and delete them
Unless you have very unusual scores, they presumably obey ordinary rules of western notation. So MuseScore shouldn't be enforcing anything that isn't already there in the scores you are entering. Seeing examples of the scores you are talking about, and the difficulties you are having, would help.
EDIT: to clarify, MuseScore *does* allow you you to deliberately break the rules of notation do things like put the wrong number of beats in a measure, etc. But without knowing what specifically you are talking about, we can't advise you on how to do it. So again, specific examples always help.
In reply to Unless you have very unusual by Marc Sabatella
I'm not talking about anything specific. What I want the program to do it doesn't do and wasn't designed to do. I put this under "feature request" for that reason.
For instance, it would be nice if I could drag a quarter note from the palette and put it on the staff where I want it and then have it stay where I put it! Sometimes I get a measure just the way I want it and then I add a note and half the stuff there goes away. Very disconcerting.
I realize that entering the notes that way could create a real mess, but let me make a mess if I want! All I'm trying to accomplish is put notes on a staff, and I don't understand why it has to be this difficult.
In reply to I'm not talking about by cmwilson2
Ah, you want a "scratchpad mode", right? And/or an 'insert' mode (vs. the current 'replace' mode)
Sorry, MuseScore doesn't have this in the current version and won't have it in the next version. It may in a later one, who knows
In reply to I'm not talking about by cmwilson2
I still don't understand. If you place a quarter note the usual way, it *does* stay where you put it. MuseScore will not change the beat position at which you added the note. If a measure is just the way you want it, then there is no possible way to add new notes to it without changing something - this is basic musicianship, not some arbitrary limitation of MuseScore. if you want to add new notes to an already full measure, then either so ething has to be removed to make room, or you need to enter the new note in a new voice - again, that's tpnot just MuseScore, but the way music notation has worked for centuries. Expecting otherwise doesn't make sense - you'd end up with too many beats in the measure. And you *can* get that effect if you really want it, but since it is quite rare and almost certainly not what you really mean, you have to specifically ask for it. From your description, I doubt you really want music with too many beats in its, though. I think you simply aren't changing voices when you should. That is, the new notes you are adding belong to a different voice - again, not because of some arbitrary restriction imposed by MuseScore, but because basic musicianship and the conventions of music notation dictate this. Again, exmaples would help clarify.