More control for Explode and Implode
I couldn't find a similar feature request:
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It would be great if the explode/implode commands would show a pop-up for configuring the way you want the explode/implode to happen: the amount of resulting voices and staves that the new music goes to. Much like Sibelius does :-).
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It would be awesome if you could apply these two commands to partial measures.
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You can select the range of staves to be affected by the commands. If you only select 3 staves, then explode will only act on those for example.
Perhaps I'm not understanding the desired use case and you might be able to elaborate?
Yes it would
In reply to You can select the range of… by jeetee
Hi jeetee, thanks for your comment.
“ You can select the range of staves to be affected by the commands. If you only select 3 staves, then explode will only act on those for example”.
Yes, but if your chords have four notes you lose one note. You can't directly explode in Musescore a four note chord in less than four staves (say, in two staves, each with two note chords). You can't specify where do you want the exploded notes either. That means, that you can't use a sequence of chords in the piano, and explode the chords in the exact staves that you want while keeping the original chords in the piano (assuming that you didn't want the explosion to happen in the piano staff). There are ways to get there, sure, but it involves way many more steps than in Sibelius.
In reply to Hi jetee, thanks for your… by m.r-botero
Then I'd propose adding your request as an additional command (or a quick way to execute explode as it currently is). At least for my use cases, the proposed way sounds as a nearly equal hassle than adding temporary staves to perform those actions on.
In reply to Then I'd propose adding your… by jeetee
If it sounds like a hassle then I’m really bad at explaining stuff :-). The quick way to execute it as it currently is could be that the new pop-up simply shows what Musescore would do right now and you just click OK. But other users could have the possibility of “configuring” the explosion as desired.
In reply to If it sounds like a hassle… by m.r-botero
I also don't have any prior Sibelius experience, so that might be part of the reason I'm not clearly grasping the proposal.
Anyone who can draw a quick mockup of how the dialog might look like?
In reply to I also don't have any prior… by jeetee
I don‘t wanna plug my old Mac to get into Sibelius and make a screenshot. I couldn‘t find an image of the pop-up in the internet. However, Finale, which I also used for many years in the past, also has a terrific explode command. Here’s a screenshot from the manual:
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It offers essentially the same functionality as Sibelius.