Copy Part Layout
Hi all,
Pretty Pretty PLEASE add copy part layout.
After writing an arrangement, grooming up a part to look great takes about 20 minutes. If you have copy part layout, the subsequent parts take about one minute each to groom. Without it, each part takes another 20 minutes.
Basically unusable without it, for me anyway.
Fingers crossed.
Comments
In reply to The style and pages settings… by Jojo-Schmitz
Doesn't serve the purpose unless I'm doing something wrong.
I created a part for the first trombone - mainly tweaking how many bars there are per stave. I saved it as a style using "save style...." in the format drop down menu.
Then I created a part for the 2nd trombone; and loaded the trombone 1 style using "load style..." in the same menu.
The format of how many bars per line did not conform. The whole point of "copy part layout" is to not have to spend 10 minutes or more per part manually tweaking the line breaks. Maybe I missed a step?
In reply to Doesn't serve the purpose… by funkygh
System breaks are indeed not part of the style.
In reply to Doesn't serve the purpose… by funkygh
The thing is, each part is normally different, it doesn't generally make sense in most real world situations to use the same breaks for each part. But there are certainly some situations, especially within a single section (trombone section etc) where it could. So a plugin to just copy breaks from one part to selected others could indeed be useful someday.
In reply to The thing is, each part is… by Marc Sabatella
On the contrary Marc. In 90 percent of the real world situations I face as an arranger of rhythm section, horn section and string section pop and jazz music, it makes perfect sense to copy the part layout as a start, then tweak if necessary. Sibelius having that feature saved me many many hours of entering system breaks and moving around text and symbols in the hundreds of charts I wrote over the last couple of years.
A plug in would be great.
On a positive note, I find Musescore to be way better than Sibelius at intuitively (out of the box) putting symbols and text in the right place - pretty much taking care of the need to copy those things from one part to another.
In reply to On the contrary Marc. In 90… by funkygh
The moment you mention "rhythm section", you're not talking about 90% of music - only pop/jazz :-).
In reply to The moment you mention … by Marc Sabatella
I didn't say 90% of music, I said 90% of music I deal with....
In reply to I didn't say 90% of music, I… by funkygh
90% of the music I deal with too! Writing for middle school orchestra, standardizing and arranging fiddle tunes for easy reading (lots of 4-bar lines), creating multiple skill-level options of the same part with minor tweaks, and writing pages of exercises -- all variations of the one before it. Whenever I copy, I'm starting with a mess of cramped notes, then counting measures (usually to four), placing the curser, hitting return, then repeating. Lots and lots of lost time, when a simple "duplicate part" might help. Am I missing something?
In reply to 90% of the music I deal with… by nuggetcolorado
If it's very simple cases like that, the existing plugin to copy layout information from score to parts might be of interest.
Or, if it's really just most four bars per system, Tools / Add/Remove System Breaks makes quick work of that.