Switch instrument mid-song, to transposing instrument
I am working on a big band piece, where the alto sax switches to flute. I know how to change the playback sound with the "Instrument" text, but I cannot change the transposition so that the music is readable by the player.
I saw there a comment about this not being supported in April 2015. Is it now?
If not, is the best work-around still to write two separat staves, and create a part that includes both but hides the unused instrument?
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No, not directly. You still one of the workarounds discussed in older threads. There are a couple of different ways it can be, but yeah, two staves are often the key. For instance, one designed to playback correctly, one designed to look correct. The former would be made invisible in the score and have no part generated. The latter would be visible in the score and have a part, but would be set silent. There are other variations that might suit some people better.
This whole issue has been fixed for MuseScore 3, but that's still a ways off.
In reply to No, not directly. You still by Marc Sabatella
Ok, thanks! But I cannot change the key signature on the "silent part" without changing it for all the parts, can I? How do I do?
In reply to Ok, thanks! But I cannot by Gauthier Östervall
Hold Ctrl while adding a key signature to make it local to that staff.
In reply to Hold Ctrl while adding a key by Marc Sabatella
OMG, what a fast, qualified answer. Thanks!
In reply to Hold Ctrl while adding a key by Marc Sabatella
Since a key signature added like this only affects one staff, could it be possible to attach the playback transposition property to this key signature? Or is the mid-song key change and playback transposition thing already designed for MS3?
In reply to Since a key signature added by jotti
Same issue here as for making a custom key signature automatically adjust for different clefs - it wouldn't be obvious exactly what the adjusted key signature should look like. Probably we'd need to provide a full key design capability giving users some sort of options to show how to transform it.
In reply to Same issue here as for making by Marc Sabatella
I should think it would be pretty obvious—MuseScore knows what a pitch is no matter the clef its in. The only thing would be to store the custom key signature as referring to notes, instead of lines and spaces.
In reply to I should think it would be by Isaac Weiss
Yes it knows pitch, bit not octave. There are potentially two different lines/spaces that could be chosen for any given pitch. Also the order of the orchestra is not necessarily deterministic in a transposed custom key signature. If you have unique enough requirements to need custom key signatures in the first place, chances are you also care exactly how they look.