Bends: support bends of arbitrary length

• May 6, 2021 - 13:33
Reported version
3.6
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

OS: Windows 10 (10.0), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.6.2.548021803, revision: 3224f34

The Bend tool is limited to 12 sp. in length, which is insufficient to cover all cases: e.g. where there is an extended interval between the up and down bend. This could be improved by allowing the user to extend the number of steps in the graph (perhaps up to 99?).

Related to #286108: [EPIC] Bends issues.

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• May 7, 2021 - 15:08
Title Bends: Allow user to add extra steps to extend the length of the bend ⇒ Bends: support bends of arbitrary length

Realistically, I don't think trying to manually gauge the length of the bend to get it to line up with some other note would be a good solution - it would break as soon as your layout changed. Instead, probably it would be better to have a way for the bend functionality to be treated as a "line", with a specific endpoint that stays anchored as the layout changes (and potentially could extend more than a single system).

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• May 7, 2021 - 19:15

I guess I have misused bends in MS before - but they have been effective. Traditionally they only affect guitars and similar instruments, but in MS they will actually also modulate some other instruments, such as recorders.
It's possible to get siren effects in this way - for example police sirens.

This may not be an "approved" way of using bends in MS, or conventional notation, but in its limited way it works.

It's possible to get long fluctuations by using long note lengths, and also using a very slow tempo.

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