Use of metronome

• Jul 31, 2020 - 08:31

Dear all,

We want to use MuseScore for a study in which we test the participants' piano skills. During the test of their piano skills we ask the participants to play a piano piece and want to use MuseScore to record what they played. However, is it possible to put the metronome sound off (i.e., thus while participants still can hear what they play and the play is still recorded properly by the program)? We expect that the sound of the metronome will interfere with the test and therefore want to put if off, but could not find how we could put the metronome sound off while recording of what the participants play is still possible..

Many thanks for your response in advance!

Best regards, Sanne

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• Jul 31, 2020 - 09:18

The tick during note entry mode is hardcoded to be audible because well otherwise you wouldn't know when it advanced without looking at the screen..

If your intention is some kind of "accuracy" test of what the student plays, then the note-input mode of MuseScore simply might not be what you're looking for (or at least turn the tick to something rather small to detect timing errors).
You might want to look into a sequencer program specifically aimed at real-time capture of what is played. Then perhaps quantisize there and export to musicxml/midi to import that then into MuseScore should you still have the need for a visual score for comparison.

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