Re-Spelling pitches
I used the re-spelling pitches under the Notes heading, and now everything is turning into double sharps and double flats all over my score. Every time I correct it, the pitches get re-spelled at another place in the score. It's like a virus. HELP!!!!!!
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Undo? Press ctrl+z until it's back where it started.
Respell pitches is supposed to only affect the selection, but this seems to not work correctly - see #284064: "Respell pitches" should only work on the selection, if there is any
In any case, respell tries to guess a reaosnable spelling, but it's really just a guess, there's no real way to know what's best. So I'd treat it as something to experiment with but not expect much out of.
In reply to Respell pitches is supposed… by Marc Sabatella
Experiment with? No way! That option is a living nightmare. I was just trying to fix one transposition in the saxes, and then it spread to every instrument in the big band. I was up to 4:00am trying to make my score sight readable again, but every time you fix one instrument, it spreads to another one.
Before you know it, every F is an E#, every C a B# every D a C double sharp etc...
I'm going to try the suggestion the other poster made(control Z) to get things back to normal, but I hope it doen's wipe out the accompaniment figures I wrote in last night. It freaked me out so much, I just downloaded MuseScore 3 (I did my chart on MuseScore 2), and hopefully it won't jump over to that version.
In any event, stay away from respell, it will ruin your score.
BTW Marc, I had you confused with a local keyboard player named Sabatella last time I posted here. I did a gig with him, and mentioned MuseScore, and the jazz guitar newsgroup, and he just went, huh? :-)
In reply to Experiment with? No way!… by sgcim
Respell isn't for fixing transposition, it's a holdover from before some improvements to MIDI import made it unnecessary but it can in some cases improve the spelling of chromatic lines by checking approaches and resolution. Like I said, it does do the entire score, which is an error, but it should then stop, once it has picked what it thinks is the right spelling, it keeps it. Problems don't "spread" unless you keep running the command on different parts, then it will of course try to respell that part too. You might want to try on a fresh score to get get a better idea of what it is actually doing - it's not as random as you have been fooled into thinking - but the bottom line is the same: unless you are trying to fix a MIDI import from MuseScore 1, it really doesn't serve any useful purpose.
Really, there is another keyboard named Sabatella? Who, where?
In reply to Respell isn't for fixing… by Marc Sabatella
Oh sorry, I meant Sabella, from NY.
I tried using Control Z as Mike had suggested, but I just got a Master Pallet page. Looks like I better get the white-out ready. The bandleader and band liked my chart so much, he wants to record it soon. I've got to make it legible.
In reply to Oh sorry, I meant Sabella,… by sgcim
If you're on Mac, it's Cmd+Z. What the standard Undo command is on your computer - it should be the same on all programs. But, it possibly too late for that. if you attach your score we can we advise better, but depending on how complex the chromaticism is, you might do well to just select all, then press Up then Down if you'd like to respell all accidentals with flats, or Down then Up to respell all accidentals with sharps.