Instrument Change behavior
The instrument change facility is great to have, but as far as I can tell, it affects playback only and not transposition. So if I have a passage for flute in a part otherwise meant for alto, I can get it to *sound* like a flute, but it will still display the pitches transposed for alto saxophone. Is there some way to make this work as I'd expect, or shall I file an issue?
Comments
Partially a bump for this, but also a suggestion / point for discussion:
Seems the logical way to implement this would be to have some sort of attribute that could be applied to a region to override the staff transposition.
Elsewhere, in http://musescore.org/en/node/17468, it was observed that MusicXML provides a "measure-style" element for defining special behaviors for regions, including things like slash notation. Seems that this would also be the way to handle these temporary transposition overrides - unless MusicXML handles this differently?
It was suggested these map onto measure properties in MuseScore, but I note that MusicXML allows for these styles to be applied to partial measures as well, and they also need to be applied on a per staff basis. Ideally, they should be allowed per-voice, too. So I am not sure how well it would work to simply add something to the existing measure properties, which at least appear to be much coarser.
If there is nothing like these partial-measure and per-staff/per-voice "measure styles" in MuseScore already, would there be any chance of trying to make this happen? I could actually imagine any number of interesting applications for this, including things like implementing cue notation, completely suppressing display of a passage (eg, to define something for playback only that can't easily be done in the chord articulation editor).