Playback options for Parts

• Aug 30, 2018 - 20:06

Is there an option to hear the entire score while editing individual Parts? I'm working on a small ensemble and finding it difficult to edit the nuances of the drum part without hearing how it fits into the overall sound.
I'm sure the answer is somewhere on the website, but I didn't see it in the Handbook under Parts.

Thanks,
Tom


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Download a Nightly or a previous version. You can open the same score on the two programs. Or export as mp3.
It might work...

In reply to by Shoichi

Thanks for the tip!

Actually, I am doing exactly what you suggest with a nightly version, but it's a little cumbersome to switch back and forth. I assume you could do the same with a mobile version. I also do this when I want to see two complete scores on different displays. (I'm actually a little nervous about accidentally saving over my work by clicking save in the wrong score... That is definitely something I would do.)

I was just hoping that MuseScore could provide an option to hear the entire score while working with parts tabs.

Thanks again.

Changes entered on the score should be shown on the drum part when it's extracted. I would suggest that you edit the drum part for actual notes played in the score with all of the parts, then extract the drum part and clean it up so it can be used by a musician. The musician should have the same notes to play on both. If you extract the score, then change the part, some items may not get passed back and forth between the score and part.

The biggest advantage of this is that it's easy to hear the drum in context of the entire score and pressing F10 to open the mixer to solo/unsolo the drums is rather quick.

In reply to by mike320

Hi Mike,
I'm in the "Clean-up" phase of my work. That is why I've extracted the parts. It's a lot easier to work when you can see the entire part on a page or two.
Another option, of course is to use the Edit/Instruments menu and toggle the visibility of unneeded parts. This was my preferred method before Marc convinced me that it was inefficient.

In reply to by toffle

It's definitely less efficient, and doesn't actually work as well for a number of reasons. But I'd recommend taking the advice to do all content editing on the score, using the part view only to edit layout. And as such, playback should normally be completely irrelevant. In fact, that's probably the best test as to what changes are best made in the score vs the parts. If it's something where playback has any bearing on the mater, it should be done in the score. If it's appearance only, do it in the part. I am struggling to imagine cases where one would be doing something layout-related that had any playback connotations at all.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

It's not a matter of layout, but more to do with seeing only three or four measures on the screen at one time, and trying to visualize larger blocks of information. That is definitely easier in Parts mode, but I can't hear the ensemble in parts mode.

In reply to by toffle

I misunderstood where you are in the editing process. You can use the view menu and check View Documents Stacked so you can see both the parts and the full score at the same time. You can use this with a single score and look at different views of that score in the top and bottom halves of the window.

In reply to by toffle

While we are on the subject, is it possible to "undock" stacked documents? It would be amazing if I could place my open scores on separate displays. I am currently editing three similar scores, (from the beginning, middle and end of a stage play) and the visual placement of separate displays would be wonderful. Just wishful thinking on my part.

[EDIT] For this kind of work I usually just sketch in the drum parts and work with a drummer to fill in the blanks, then add their suggestions to my score, but this project is being shopped around to producers, and I can't risk it being rejected simply because I didn't do my homework on the percussion book. (Trust me, there's going to be lots of reasons they will criticize my work. Original theatre is a real shark tank!)

Regards,
Tom

In reply to by mike320

Thanks, Mike. That's definitely an option. It works, but because my monitors are vertically stacked, and side-by-side documents in MuseScore are horizontal, it is a little confusing to navigate. I'll try it for a few days to see how it feels.

Thanks again,
Tom

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