Selecting an instrument in the Drum Input Palette effectively disables drum input from the on-screen Piano and/or MIDI keyboard

• Dec 10, 2016 - 17:19
Reported version
3.2
Type
Functional
Frequency
Many
Severity
S3 - Major
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

2.0.3 / Win 7

Further to this thread: Problem entering drum parts .

If you have a percussion staff selected and are in note input mode, selecting a note in the Drum input palette will effectively deactivate the virtual piano keyboard (by mapping the selected note to all the keys).

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• Mar 14, 2017 - 16:33

The phrase "Fix drum note entry, avoid to be blocked in chord mode when mixing drum/melodic," is not understandable. And, there is no issue number displayed next to the fix.

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• Mar 14, 2017 - 17:48

No the fix has nothing to do with this problem. I'm not even sure this problem is really a problem... what would be the expected behavior?

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• Mar 15, 2017 - 12:27

(My mistake. The fix documented in the release notes is for another issue.)

If you enter a bass drum, for example, from the Drum input palette (DIP) and switch to the piano keyboard, all the keys now play the bass drum. If you enter a snare drum from the DIP, and switch to the piano keyboard, all the keys play a snare drum. And so on.

This needs to be fixed so that the piano keyboard is not affected by the previous input from the DIP.

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• Aug 15, 2019 - 11:50
Title Selecting note in Drum input palette deactivates the virtual piano keyboard ⇒ Selecting an instrument in the Drum Input Palette prevents virtual piano keyboard from playing/entering other instruments
Reported version 2.1 ⇒ 3.2
Regression ⇒ No
Workaround ⇒ No

Still the case in MS3. The Piano keyboard needs to work independently of the Drum Input Palette. So even if the Bass drum is selected in the DIP, the user should still be able to play and enter the full range of percussion instruments from the Piano keyboard.

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• Mar 6, 2020 - 10:33
Title Selecting an instrument in the Drum Input Palette prevents virtual piano keyboard from playing/entering other instruments ⇒ Double-clicking an instrument in the Drum Input Palette effectively disables the on-screen Piano and/or MIDI keyboard
Severity S4 - Minor ⇒ S3 - Major

Reported again at https://musescore.org/en/node/301718.

It appears that this bug affects both the on-screen piano and/or any attached MIDI keyboard. MuseScore allows you to mix Drum Input Palette (DIP) keyboard shortcuts and Piano/MIDI keyboard input. But if you enter an instrument note by double-clicking from the DIP, this forces all subsequent Piano/MIDI keyboard keys to default to that same instrument. This effectively disables them.

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• Mar 6, 2020 - 10:34
Title Double-clicking an instrument in the Drum Input Palette effectively disables the on-screen Piano and/or MIDI keyboard ⇒ Double-clicking an instrument in the Drum Input Palette disables the on-screen Piano and/or MIDI keyboard

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• Jul 25, 2021 - 18:56

Running 3.6.2. 548021 803.
I just had this problem today. The funny thing is that initially I didn't have it, i.e I opened the Piano Keyboard, entered note input mode and could select with the Piano Keyboard. I edited the drumset file to add/ modify some of the names etc. Also, I loaded some sound fonts. After that, the Piano Keyboard is locked to the note selected in the Drum Input panel. This persisted even though I deleted the sound fonts and loaded the default soundfont. It persists even when I load a previously unedited but saved drumset.

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• Oct 11, 2021 - 10:40
Title Selecting an instrument in the Drum Input Palette disables the on-screen Piano and/or MIDI keyboard ⇒ Selecting an instrument in the Drum Input Palette effectively disables drum input from the on-screen Piano and/or MIDI keyboard

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