Musescore: Chord fonts and creating cue notes
I'm trialling Musescore 2.5 against Sibelius 8. It's holding up pretty well...much better than the last time I used it, so kudos to the developers. Two bugbears though.
I tend to use non-serif fonts for chords, but still need to use the stroke for minor chords (eg. C-7) and the delta for major sevenths. On Musescore the only way to do this seems to be using the Jazz font. Is this the case?
I typically put loads of cues into the piano part. (Someone has to know what's going on, and it might as well be the pianist). However, to create cue notes, it seems that I have to select each note individually and then make a range of them small. Sibelius gets around this by the ability to filter select by "notes". Is this possible in Musescore?
Cheers
David
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Actually, sorted the select notes. Select button at the bottom of the inspector. That was the dealbreaker. What about the chords
MuseScore 2.5?
Reg. Cord symbols: No, the t turns into a triangle regardless of which font you use
You definitely don't need the jazz font with chord symbols - all the same symbols are available either way. So if you have the Standard chord symbol style selected in Style / General / Chord Symbols, you can enter "-" and triangle the same way you would as if you had the Jazz style selected: by typing "-" and "t" (or "^") respectively.
BTW, when making cues notes, after selecting the notes (glad you discovered the Notes button in the Inspector!), be sure to choose the right "Small" checkbox, as there are two. One under "Note" affects only the noteheads; you probably ant the one under "Chord" that also affects stem et al.
In reply to You definitely don't need… by Marc Sabatella
Hmmm..it's an imported MusicXML file which sometimes plays havoc with things.
It's the first time I've used Musescore for serious work. Honestly, really enormous kudos to the designers. It's getting to the point where Sibelius and Finale need to start worrying.
In reply to Hmmm..it's an imported… by DavidC1357
Thanks for the kind words:
You are right that imported MusicXML files often come with their own issues, but I can't think of anything that would be relevant to the ability to parse or render chord symbols that you type yourself. it's true that depending on how the MusicXML was rendered, chord symbols that were originally spelled with those symbols in some other program may or may not be spelled that way automatically on import. If the "use-symbols" tag is present within the MusicXML file, it does work, but not all programs support that when exporting MusicXML. Still, even if the chord originally comes through as maj7 or whatever, you should be able to edit it after the fact.
MusicXML import shouldn't trigger any issues with regard to making cues notes. One thing you should be aware of if you haven't figured this out already is that upon import, stem directions are usually locked up or down as per the instructions in the MusicXML file, rather than set to Auto as they normally would be. That's fine if you intend on using the score more or less as is, but it means it won't respond to edits the way you might like. So the first thing I often do upon importing a MusicXML file is select all, press Notes in Inspector, then reset stem directions.