Playing selected notes when moved
Hi there,
I'm trying to figure out how to get Musescore to play notes (or chords) when I shift them up or down with the arrow keys. I've used both the arrow keys and the shortcut to stay within key (Shift + Option + Arrow on Mac), but it doesn't make any sound. Is there a way to hear the notes immediately without having to reselect the notes?
A forum thread from several years ago mentioned that Musescore does this by default, but this no longer seems to be the case:
https://musescore.org/en/node/25040
Thanks
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It still does. Is it enabled in Preferences > Note Input?
In reply to It still does. Is it enabled… by Jojo-Schmitz
It seems to be enabled, unless there's another setting that affects this? For the most part, my preferences are the default preferences that come with Musescore.
In reply to It seems to be enabled,… by gavaso
They do play back for me
In reply to They do play back for me by Jojo-Schmitz
The issue seems to be that single notes play back, but entire chords do not. Any ideas?
In reply to The issue seems to be that… by gavaso
Range selections indeed don't, consider, what would you expect to hear if transposing multiple measures at once? It's been suggested we could consider playing the first note, or the first chord, and that's a possibility indeed, but right now, we don't.
In reply to Range selections indeed don… by Marc Sabatella
What I'm working with is just one chord within one measure on one instrument. If I understand correctly, every time I pitch it up or down, it should play the new tones, similar to the functionality of pitching single notes up and down (this seems to work without a problem).
There is an option in the settings to play the whole chord when editing, but this mysteriously has no effect. Unless I'm misunderstanding, the arrow key transposition should have the same behaviour regardless of whether one note is selected or two (synchronous) notes are selected. Am I off?
In reply to What I'm working with is… by gavaso
Editing in this context means, entering notes in note input mode. That does play the whole chord, if this option is enabled. As mentioned, a range selection does not play when transposing, because even though your range might in this particular case happen to only encompass one chord, range selections in general can be arbitrarily long. So as I said, it is conceivable that some day we’d decide to go ahead and play the first chord just so that there is some audible feedback, and in that case, it would do the right thing in your special case of a single chord selected.
In reply to Editing in this context… by Marc Sabatella
Ah, I see! This makes more sense - thanks!