Independent note alignment in multiple voices
MuseScore 3.5 (yes, I know 3.6 is out there)
I've not found any way to do this.
Writing three voices on a staff, each with a different time value. I want to place notes horizontally such that the two stems in the same direction do not overlap; each is separately visible because each stem may indicate a different time value.
With great tedium I've been able to adjust the X offsets of the notes, stems, accidentals, and any other elements to create the desired appearance IF none of the notes is beamed. But if the note whose position I want to adjust is beamed, I cannot move the beam ends left or right to align with the moved stem. (I would think the beam end ought to move with the stem but it does not.) I would hope there's an easier way to do this, but I'm missing it.
Things get even trickier if two of the notes are beamed. Also if two are eighth or shorter notes but only one is beamed, so one has a tail I don't want to see unless I can separate the stems horizontally; I have to make it invisible.
Any suggestions?
Comments
Don't offset the individual elements, but the chord itself
In reply to Don't offset the individual… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you. That works much better!
In reply to Thank you. That works much… by Gerald Reynolds
Alternatively: double-click notehead and move with right/left arrows
In reply to Alternatively: double-click… by cadiz1
JoJo's solution is better. Moving just the notehead as you suggest only works for single notes. It doesn't work for chords because you can't select an entire chord with a double click.
MuseScore treats single notes as a chord, which is why it works for them. But multiple notes in a chord selected together (whether as a range or individually selected) are edited as elements, not as chords, if they are edited at all. Try it and see. Only the chord section offsets in the Inspector dialog can move an entire chord together.
In reply to JoJo's solution is better. … by Gerald Reynolds
" Only the chord section offsets in the Inspector dialog can move an entire chord together."
Well, yes. But, unless I totally misunderstood your initial message, your question was related about notes you wanted to move in a multi-voice context, but not about chords (I never see this word in your message)
You wrote instead: "Writing three voices on a staff, each with a different time value. I want to place notes horizontally such that the two stems in the same direction do not overlap" and the title : "Independent note alignment in multiple voices"
In reply to " Only the chord section… by cadiz1
"... but not about chords (I never see this word in your message)"
Agreed, but the term Chord does appear in the Inspector (English interface). And that is what Jojo-Schmitz recommended: use the X-offset of the Chord (which moves notehead and stem together). Changing the X-offset of the Element (= notehead) is not useful when trying to avoid overlapping stems.
In reply to "... but not about chords … by OpenScore Lieder
Agree, of course, I know all that. But again, in a multivoices context, double-click + arrows do exactly the same result. For the record, it was the method before the implementation of the Inspector... there is a long time ago now... ! :)
EDIT: see:
In reply to JoJo's solution is better. … by Gerald Reynolds
I wasn't as clear as I might have been. In some cases a single note could be moved, but in others it had to be a chord because the voice that needed to be moved carried more than one note.