Remove clef, but do not move notes.
Dear MuseScore community.
I have been trying out the “world of” music-xml. Scanning scores and importing into Musescore.
As expected, lot of editing needs to be done.
One “issue”, however, could perhaps (?) be solved by a MuseScore “feature”:
The situation is as follows:
ALL notes/ chords are correctly placed by the scanning software, BUT the scanning software for some reason inserted the wrong clef, typically a bass clef, in the score. Perhaps because of noise/lyrics or whatever.
When I remove that clef, all the notes/chords are moved accordingly (typically to a treble clef). And then I have to move notes / change accidentals etc. etc.
It would be convenient if I could have an option remove that clef and keep the notes / chords “in place”!
Comments
There's no such option. You'd have to transpose the score
In reply to There's no such option. You… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, I know that, but I guess it is a valid feature request?
In reply to Yes, I know that, but I… by ErlingI
No, I don't think so
In reply to No, I don't think so by Jojo-Schmitz
Well, with all respect, I disagree. With multippel «correct» note/ chord measures with only a clef to «ruin» the import, it would be welcomed to say, press “Shift-Delete” to a clef symbol, and the clef goes away, and the notes/chords stays in place. I a not sure it’s even a difficult programming task.
In reply to Well, with all respect, I… by ErlingI
It is, as MuseScore stores the pitches not their position in the staff
In reply to It is, as MuseScore stores… by Jojo-Schmitz
Ok, so what you say: it is difficult to achieve in MuseScore and as such not a good proposal.
Well, technically you don't delete a clef but apply the default one.
So what you're asking for is some kind of method that says, apply this clef and transpose in a single action?
In reply to Well, technically you don't… by jeetee
True. So would be possible and indeed not really complicated. If done, it should work the same for any clef change,not just delete. Triggered with each.g. Ctrl+Del and Ctrl+apply clef
In reply to Well, technically you don't… by jeetee
Hi and thanks for feedback. Yes, I think you are pretty accurate in you description. Change to a new clef and transpose in "one go".
I have attached an example to show what I am talking about.
The situation happens quite frequently when I use my XML-sw. to scan scores and enter them into MuseScore.
I might do some research on the XML-text "up-front" with an editor. This to see if things can be improved with simple text search/replace" in the XML-file.