Unwanted chord offset
Is there any combination of keys or persistent state on the computer keyboard that could cause a vertical chord offset of 0.20 sp when attempting to move a note's pitch with the up or down keys?
Sometimes I get this unexpected result but when it happens I don't recall what I may have done wrong, and I cannot reproduce it either. The chord tab in the inspector is not even visible, so it couldn't be some inadverted mouse action. I know it's very little information, but may be someone knows what can trigger this...
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Is the head separating from the stem when this happens? If so, you are probably inadvertently double clicking the note rather than single click. This puts the head in edit mode and it will move with the arrows but not change pitch.
If this problem persists, it may mean your mouse is wearing out.
In reply to Is the head separating from… by mike320
Thank you very much, this may be the reason, indeed. Very unlikely it is the mouse (it's not brand-new but it is not so old anyway). Probably it is me that, out of patience for the delay in getting some visual feedback when editing a large score, click twice.
I'm on Widows 10 and when in edit mode, and using the up/down keys the note will move up/down without changing pitch. (It will change the offset, but not the pitch.)
So...
Please mention your OS, version of MuseScore, what you mean by 'chord' and 'chord tab'.
(The word 'note' is often named 'chord' in the software.)
In reply to I'm on Widows 10 and when in… by Jm6stringer
I'm on Windows 7 and MuseScore 3.0.5
Chord is the category used by MuseScore for a note or group of notes tied to a single stem (in a single "voice"), and chord tab is one of the four dropdown families of editable items corresponding to the selection of one or more notes in the inspector (element, segment, chord and note). When applying horizontal offset the whole note or chord moves a bit right or left, with little consequence (sometimes useful when the notes are too close or the surroundings are too populated with other symbols). But vertical offset, I don't know what it's for, since it could very dangerous. Half space up or down and the note will be completely confused with another pitch. May be in some very special cases a very little touch might make the score visually clearer?