Adjustment to get Musescore to jump to next page sooner during playback?
When, during playback in page view mode, I'm singing along on the rightmost page of a score whose lyrics I haven't yet mastered, Musescore waits so late to jump to the next page that I don't have time to assimilate the lyrics on the new page quickly enough to sing them in tempo. Can the lead time for the switch to the new page be adjusted by the end user?
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Great idea!
here's a similar request from 2012:
https://musescore.org/en/node/18178
There is a discussion of related matters in the now defunct MS3 Issue Tracker:
https://musescore.org/en/node/330306
There is also and official request on Github:
https://github.com/orgs/musescore/discussions/21870
But it looks like the concept hasn’t garnered advancement into any active MS4 project.
scorster
In reply to A similar request from 2012:… by scorster
In the meantime try using continuous view?
In reply to In the meantime try using… by Brer Fox
And set the smooth panning option in Edit / Preferences / Advanced. Then the cursor stays fixed while the score scrolls.
In reply to In the meantime try using… by Brer Fox
That solves about 1/4th of the problem. Another part of what I'm doing when rehearsing like this is becoming familiar with the score: where the repeats and jumps are, what the other parts are doing ... in short, assimilating the big picture. You don't get that in continuous view.
I often serve as a page turner for my wife when she's playing a new cello part. She always wants me to turn the page much sooner than Musescore does it. In anticipation, she looks ahead to the end of the line on the current page, takes what is there into short-term memory (from which she continues playing), and then wants a second or two to get reoriented on the new page.
In reply to That solves about 1/4th of… by manonash
@manonash
Nicely described!
I hope practice and music education become forefront in MuseScore someday. That would dramatically expand the user base.
>> [Page view ] would only need to shift one system earlier of what its currently doing.
https://musescore.org/en/node/330306#comment-1217890
There are multiple problems with Continuous view>Horizontal + Settings>Advanced>Sooth Panning:
• at volta jumps MuseScore should move the jump point slightly before it plays—ideally by an amount determined by the reader.
• horizontal scroll is jerky, even on my peppy MacBook Air M2, so that's tiring. (Perhaps a native silicon release will fix that)
• Most importantly: Even with smooth scrolling, horizontal movement of the notation clashes with the concept of saccades and fixations.
Multiple studies have tracked eye movement of good music readers. The results show that visual processing only occurs effectively when the eyes are fixated on a point and a field of notes are perceived by peripheral vision. The rapid movement to the next fixation is called a saccade. During the saccade little if anything is processed due to saccadic masking.
MuseScore's notation scrolling in Continuous view>Horizontal + Settings>Advanced>Sooth Panning is somewhat akin to a constant saccade.
scorster