Add the ability for real strumming notation and playback, including the string order
Reported version
3.6
Type
Performance
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
Yes
Project
Due to the nature of ukulele default tuning as G4-C4-E4-A4 (except for low G ukulele), the playback of an up strum (using arppegios) should end on G4. However, playback instead takes the chord and arppegiates it pitch-wise, ending on C4. An up strum on ukulele is sometimes used to emphasize the inner note of a chord, but the playback does not allow this to occur. Please let me know if this explanation is not sufficiently clear.
Edit: This has been resubmitted as feature suggestion as opposed to minor (bug).
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Comments
Problem is that, at least in this case, strumming is not the same as arpeggio. The latter is always up or down the chord's pitches.
Using arpeggion it simulate strumming therefor is not possible, not in this case at least, that's the cost to pay for having to use a workaround.
I'd see this as by design rather than as a (minor) bug.
A feature request (AKA Suggestion) might be in order to support real strumming. Maybe even as an Arpeggio style, Arpeggio Up/Down, Strumming Up/Down, the latter with an adjusted speed.
Sounds good. I'll resubmit this thread as a suggestion (S5), then. Thank you for the quick reply.
Or turn this issue here into such a Suggestion
Let me do just that
Workaround currently is to use Arpeggios, but that
a) comes with a wrong speed (too slow usually)
and
b) fails miserably for instruments that don't have their strings ordered by pitch (like Ukulele)
I'd recommend the addition a strum symbols property (including arpeggio and Down/Up symbols).
Then derive the note/string playback order:
• by factoring the strum direction together with the String Data tuning information
• or if there's a tablature staff by factoring the strum direction together with the string designations expressed on the tablature staff itself, which is naturally perfectly nuanced.
• or if the score includes classical string number indications ( ① ② ③ ④ ... ) factor the strum direction together with the string classical string indications. (I guess there would have to be a fallback play if the classical string number indication fails to agree with the tablature. Or MuseScore could offer a choice, to sound strums according to tablature or according to the classical string numbering marks.
scorster