Pausing and Holding chords
I stumbled upon a feature where I could pause and hold on chords to see what they sounded like, but I can't figure out how to do it again and can't find any sources online that tell me how to do it. Is this a wonderful bug I stumbled upon by chance or is it just a function I need to find again?
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Sounds like a bug, because we don't yet have a feature like that :-)
In reply to Sounds like a bug, because… by Marc Sabatella
dang, I was really hoping i could find a way to use it
In reply to dang, I was really hoping i… by maasir123
I agree, that sounds useful. Looping only works if all the note durations are the same—say I want to pause on a staccato piano chord (which would get annoying if looped anyway) while every other part is holding notes.
In reply to Sounds like a bug, because… by Marc Sabatella
For composing and arranging, that's really an essential feature.
If you click on a note in the chord and toggle loop playback, the chord will keep repeating (to "hear" what they sound like. ;-)
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/play-mode#loop
Elsewhere on here (can't find it), someone came up with a great hack.
1. On your score, put a tempo marking in, and set it to zero e.g. crotchet = 0
2. Press play. It holds the first chord almost indefinitely
3. Then jump around with the mouse onto any chord/note you like. Or shuttle along using L/R arrow keys.
I use this a lot as a aural double check against transcription errors
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