Octave Jumping

• Dec 2, 2018 - 23:23
Reported version
3.0
Priority
P1 - High
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Randomly
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

Working in Bass Clef on French Horn and at one point, no matter if i would bring the previous note back down the octave, the next note I would input would automatically be an octave above the last.
Edit: I just figured out it happens when transferring from one measure to the next, if that helps.

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• Dec 3, 2018 - 00:02
Severity S4 - Minor ⇒ S3 - Major
Status active ⇒ needs info
Priority ⇒ P1 - High

See also #277796: Inconsistent octave selection in note input mode, in particular the comment https://musescore.org/en/node/277796#comment-873260. Since that issue was originally about something else, let's keep that focused on the original issue (handling of accidentals sometimes throwing off the "closest octave" calculation by a step), and use this issue to track this new, more serious but also more sporadic problem.

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• Jan 1, 2019 - 23:45
Status needs info ⇒ active

I changed the bass clef line to treble clef with no issues. Then I changed it back to bass clef and suddenly, instead of getting bass clef pitch like I expected, I'm still getting treble clef pitch and I have to press ctrl-down at least once to get it in the right octave. I don't know yet if this happens every time that you change back to a clef you originally were in but I do know that it happens at least for bass clef -> treble clef -> bass clef and as soon as I get to the next measure, it goes back to being at treble clef pitch. This is very frustrating when I am transcribing a piece like Spring from The Four Seasons for piano and flute.

The Four Seasons.mscz

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