Piano Roll Editor
Hi, I am intending to use the Piano Roll Editor feature from my Musescore application (PC version).
I would like to see it rolling vertically (i.e.: with the piano keyboard showing horizontally on-screen), so I can see the keys on-screen mimicking my real keyboard. However, at the moment I can only see the Piano Roll Editor only rolling horizontally, with a vertical keyboard, which is not ideal for me.
The web interface version of Musescore, however, features a piano roll editor rolling vertically, which is what I want in my PC version.
My question is, please: is there any way of configuring the Piano Roll Editor to roll vertically in the PC version?
Thank you!!
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I can't argue with taste, or that that shouldn't be an option, but that would drive me crazy; seeing the notes aligned vaguely as they are on the staff, with high notes high and low notes low, is profoundly intuitive, so much so that I have become skilled at reading the music directly from the PRE screen while editing, without needing to look at the score. Again, I can't tell you to like the way it is better, but ...
I would like to see it rolling vertically (i.e.: with the piano keyboard showing horizontally on-screen), so I can see the keys on-screen mimicking my real keyboard.
If you were able to physically sit in front of that 'vertical' piano keyboard shown in the Piano Roll Editor, the first thing you would discover upon 'playing it' would be that all the 'high' notes are to your left and all the 'low' notes are to your right (contrary to a 'real' piano's layout).
As such, it will never mimic a 'real keyboard' - regardless of orientation.
That's because in the 'Note Display Area' the higher notes are placed towards the top and the lower notes towards the bottom - comparable to the musical staff. (As forum poster BSG has earlier attested.)
I don't know what your specific use case is (e.g., learning to play), so...
have you considered the piano keyboard feature? Press P to display it.
It does have a horizontal orientation, with correct left-to-right (low-to-high) pitch layout -- and you can "see the keys on-screen mimicking your real keyboard".
(The piano keys 'light up' as the score plays.)