Automatically define rhythms from melody?
Reported version
3.1
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
I write mainly two types of music - Piano and Choir/SATB. For piano, Musescore works great. But for SATB in a closed score format, the part writing is very tedious. After I put in the melody, I normally want the other parts to be the same rhythms, except in a few spots. So to have to put in the rhythms for each part, one at a time just seems unnecessary. For the bass, I can copy and paste, then use the re-pitch function to get the notes I want, but for alto and tenor, I can't, because if you copy and paste into the same staff it just overwrites what was already there. I would love to have some way to have Musescore automatically use the rhythms from the melody, and I can change it only if needed.
Thanks,
pianocomposer321
Comments
This question belongs in the help forum https://musescore.org/en/forum/6, not the issue tracker.
Since you're here. You can copy one part to another then use the Re-pitch option from the Note entry drop down (it looks like a fancy N). You will need to switch to the default mode if you need to change a rhythm.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/note-input for more info
This is what I'm doing all the time: Enter soprano notes, copy, swap voice 1 and 2, paste, repitch, copy, paste to T/B, Ctrl down (to be an octave below), repitch, then add lyrics and chord symbols (or exclude them on that 2nd copy)
In reply to This is what I'm doing all… by Jojo-Schmitz
This does not work in close score format, because if you paste it overwrites what was already there.
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In reply to ? by Jojo-Schmitz
you copy the melody, switch to 2nd voice, then paste, and it just replaces what was already there with what was copied, which is the same thing. so it does absolutely nothing. switching to 2nd voice doesn't make what you copied be pasted in the second voice. I tried doing this before posting in the forum. the reason I posted in the issue tracker instead of the help forum is because I wasn't asking for help, I was asking for a new feature.
Enter voice 1, copy, 'swap voice 1 and 2, paste
Ok, you're saying to change the soprano notes to 2nd voice before pasting? I thought you were saying to switch to the 2nd voice so that what was pasted would be pasted in the second voice. Needless to say, this does not work, and that's why I was confused.
Thanks!