Custom noteheads
I need a small collection of very specific strum notehead symbols (and the noteheads in MuseScore’s Noteheads palette don’t suit my needs very well.) So I began a "custom notehead" venture:
a) I created a “slash” symbol in Affinity Designer and exported it to SVG.
b) I added the SVG to MuseScore’s Noteheads palette.
I hoped that, in transit, MuseScore would imbue the SVG with special notehead properties, such that:
• it could replace the notehead symbol of the selected notes, and behave like the slash notehead baked into the Noteheads palette.
• I could select the custom notehead and drag it to change the vertical location and pitch
• I could define what point of the SVG would locate to the business end of the note stem
Unfortunately these hopes didn't prove out, at least not automatically.
So I checked the “Palette item” properties to see if there were any additional “notehead” properties associated with members of the noteheads palette. I didn’t find any.
Anybody know how to persuade an imported SVG to assume notehead behavior?
scorster
Comments
There is none, really. You're restricted to those defined by SMuFL
If there is a notehead you see used in published music that isn't available in MuseScore, that would be something to report to the SMuFL folks so they can considering adding it to the next version and then adding it to Bravura.
If it's your own unique experimental notation, probably you need to keep relying on workarounds.
So then, in MuseScore currently we're limited to these SMuFL slash noteheads, right?
In reply to So then, [in MuseScore… by scorster
Yes. Even if we apparently not yet use them all, bot only those could get used
I wanted to use Carnatic Music Notation for my just tempered notes., is there a plugin which can do that ? I should be able to enter a text value for each note from my ideal plugin, and wherever that note comes in the score, I should be able to see the text
In reply to I wanted to use Carnatic… by mdkpsp
Manual workaround (but not too intensive):
1. Create a staff text for each variant and add them to a custom palette. (only needs to be done the first time)
2. Enter your music
3. Right-click a note and use Select > More > Same pitch
4. Click on the correct palette text.
5. Repeat for each pitch
As for creating a plugin for this; you could start from the notenames plugin for example.