How to create one staff, multiple parts.

• May 11, 2019 - 20:18

I apologize if this is a FAQ. I searched and experimented quite a bit, but did not find how to do this.

I am creating some exercises. I want to write one staff's worth of boring arpeggios, and then export it all to different transposing instruments, say for Eb, Bb, F and G instruments. I don't want to have four or five different staves or voices, and have to coordinate changes to all of them, as they are all identical. I'd like just one input and multiple outputs. I can live with transposition out of the instruments' ranges.

I have tried to do this with parts, but it seems there is a one staff-one part rule in Musescore 3. I saw that was a restriction in Musescore 2, but I was hoping it was lifted in Musescore 3.

FWIW I am using MuseScore 3.0.5 on UbuntuStudio 19.04 Linux. I believe I am using the most current ppa version.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Shoichi

• May 11, 2019 - 20:21

Add Instruments, generate Parts, and save them as autonomous files.

vilcxjo

• May 11, 2019 - 21:08

Hmm. I guess this is the best MuseScore can do. I was hoping to just write the input once and have it transposed for all the instruments, but maybe that's not possible. I guess it is better to have several staves, one for each instrument, and just copy them when I need to produce the parts. Now that I have some experience with doing this, transposing without some guidance goes out of range pretty easily. Having several staves on the main page allows one to manage that all at once.