3 newbie questions!
I've been using MuseScore for 4 whole hours and am amazed! It seems to do almost everything I need and incredibly easily & quickly. Having created my first score, I have 3 questions which I can't find answers to: any help gratefully received.
1. How can I add a new instrument to the instrument list? It shows :data/instruments.xml as the location of the instruments file, but that doesn't exist.
2. There is an End Bar barline: where is the Start Bar barline (reverse of End Bar)?
3. How can I add 8va to a clef, eg a bass clef with a small 8 just above?
Comments
3. Enable the Advanced Workspace, there you'll find more clefs, including ones with 8vb and 8va
2. There is none
1. Why? What instrument is missing?
In reply to 3. Enable the Advanced by Jojo-Schmitz
3. Excellent!
2. Shame: seems an obvious thing to want.
1. I'm writing for recorders at the moment, so need Sopranino, Descant, Treble, Tenor, Bass & Gt Bass. Tr T & B I can select from Vocal, but it would be great to select any combination of those 6 as a group. Where is the list of instruments held, so I can edit it?
In reply to 3. Excellent! 2. Shame: seems by Alan Wilson
C: / Program Files / MuseScore 2 / Instrument?
In reply to C: / Program Files / by Shoichi
Sorry, I should have said: Mac OSX 10.8. Default installation created /Documents/MusScore2 with a number of subfolders, all empty; /Instruments doesn't exist.
In reply to Sorry, I should have said: by Alan Wilson
@Alan Wilson, but I do not think that it is enough to add a name.
When you press "I" select "All Instruments".
For the score see: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/staff-properties#edit-staff-properties
In reply to @Alan Wilson, but I do not by Shoichi
That's great: many thanks. I'd missed All Instruments.
Soprano & Alto recorder are called Descant & Treble in the UK, but I can live with that.
In reply to That's great: many thanks. by Alan Wilson
You can rename them in the staff properties. We could fix the translations of these for the UK, I've done that now
In reply to You can rename them in the by Jojo-Schmitz
Excellent - many thanks.
In reply to That's great: many thanks. by Alan Wilson
The discussion about this came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/282106
In reply to 3. Excellent! 2. Shame: seems by Alan Wilson
All these instruments exist already
In reply to All these instruments exist by Jojo-Schmitz
Where? They're not in Common Instruments; where else can I select them from?
In reply to Where? They're not in Common by Alan Wilson
All instruments...
In reply to All instruments... by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks; I'd missed that completely.
In reply to 3. Excellent! 2. Shame: seems by Alan Wilson
Why would you want a reverse final barline? I've never seen one in published music. But if you do need one for some sort of experimental notation you are devising, you can grab the "reverse final barline" symbol from the Symbols palette (press "Z" to display) and place it manually.
In reply to Why would you want a reverse by Marc Sabatella
It's actually a start barline I'm after: in all the published music I've used (for several instruments, not piano alone) the left side of each line has a thick then thin barline extending over all the staves, with a bracket top & bottom:
![FirstBar.jpg]( "FirstBar.jpg")
But I'm being picky: I'll have a look at the Symbols palette & in any case the double barline will do fine.
In reply to It's actually a start barline by Alan Wilson
You'll find it in the "Brackets" palette.
1) Drag it to any staff (I usually drag to the first, but probably it is not important)
2) Double click on it (or select and press the [E] key) to enter edit mode on it
3) Drag the end handle to the point where you want it to end
4) Click elsewhere (or press the [Esc] key) to exit edit mode
In reply to It's actually a start barline by Alan Wilson
Ah yes - that's not a barline but rather a system bracket. Those are indeed common, and are set up explained above. Once you have set it up, they are automatically generated for each system and are automatically updated as the layout changes - unlike true barlines, which you attach to a specific measure and it remains attached to that measure.
In reply to Ah yes - that's not a barline by Marc Sabatella
Brilliant! Many thanks to you both.
Is there anything MuseScore can't do?
And such prompt & knowledgeable support... Why does anyone pay for Sibelius?