Increasing note length by inserting not overwriting
I'm new to musescore, but I have input a few songs using midi, but left all notes as crotchets for speed thinking I could add the phrasing later. When I increase a crotchet to a minim for instance it overwrites the next notes. How do I do this, so it just inserts the extra beat without overwriting the following notes?
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*Phrasing* is something you can change or add later, but *rhythm* is something else entirely. MuseScore won't change the rhythms you entered any more than it will change the pitches you entered. If you put a note on beat 4, it stays on beat 4 if possible no matter what you change earlier in the measure. So it is just as important to enter the rhythms as the pitches in the first place.
But you can change the pitch of a note quite easily! It just seems crazy that you cannot insert a note and push everything out by the length of the note you have added.
In reply to But you can change the pitch by hogmahub
Of course you can change pitch easily - and you can change duration easily too! But when you change pitch of a note, other notes are not affected, right? Changing pitch of one note leaves other notes unchanged. And it is the same with changing duration. Changing duration of one note leaves other notes unchanged where possible. If you want to move some note(s) later in time, you don't do it by changing some *other* note - you change the time position of the note(s) you want to change *directly*. Cut/copy/paste work well for this. Consider, there is no way MuseScore can guess how many of the subsequent notes you wanted to move. Just the next note? All notes to the end of the measure? All notes all the way to the end of the piece? By cutting and pasting the notes, you are in control.
Anyhow, assuming you entered your music correctly in the first place, what you describe wouldn't happen very often. It's only because you made the mistake of ignoring rhythm that this is something you are now needing to do often.
In reply to Of course you can change by Marc Sabatella
Like the original poster, in my mind I was expecting some kind of insert mode in addition to overwrite. I agree that "cut and paste works" but I disagree with it being practical in all cases. I am not a professional at entering music, in fact I am pathetic at entering the correct rhythm, but I can enter the pitch correctly most times. So for correcting the note duration, an "insert mode" would help me considerably. I agree there are many ways to determine how many notes to "move" when inserting (current bar, next bar, all bars), but in practice, I don't see a technical problem moving "all notes until the end of the piece". So what if I screw up subsequent bars? The idea is that I am editing the piece, and the "insert mode" is just one more tool. As long as there is a toggle for "insert vs. overwrite" people can pick one of the two. Currently, there is only "overwrite".
In reply to Like the original poster, in… by martinda14
There is a form of insert mode, not really meant for ordinary cases that are handled simply by cut and paste but special cases you for instance to create very long measures. But depending on the exact problem you are trying to solve here, maybe it could be useful., We'd need you to attach your score and describe your problme in more detail in order to understand.
There would be no technical problem with implementing a "move all notes from here to end of piece" command, the problem is that in reality it's almost never what anyone would actually want. And it's only four clicks to "select to end of score, cut, move cursor right, paste" for those few cases where this does happen to be the right answer.
In reply to But you can change the pitch by hogmahub
But changing the pitch of a single note doesn't affect the rest of the notes, either.