Mixer: make it easier to find the chord "harmony" channel

• May 9, 2021 - 11:14
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

Open the attached score. Open the mixer and try to find the "harmony" channel that controls chord playback. It is not obvious for the following reasons:

  • There is no colour code or other obvious visual clue that could immediately identify it.
  • The user first has to identify the part track to which the chords are attached.
  • In this case, the name of the track and the coincidence of "harmony" and "harmonics" has obscured it further.

Suggestion: Make the chord "harmony" track accessible from the track area of the mixer rather than from a part track.

Attachment Size
harmony_channel.mscz 14.65 KB

Comments

• May 9, 2021 - 11:35

Interesting - I didn't know this kind of thing existed.

One issue is that many people don't read manuals nowadays - but expect to be able to figure things out from a user interface.

They often miss things that way, though it's not always a big problem.

Users often don't like some very powerful features which were useful in older software systems, such as batch processing, command line processing, but "prefer" to work - sometimes incredibly slowly - with WYSIWYG visual interfaces.

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