Just cant get on with Musescore 4
Sorry but I, like many others are finding Musescore 4 largely unusable. It has become ridiculously complicated and has lost really good features of the previous version. I have been trying it for at leat 6 weeks but it's just doing my head in and I now just want to go back to Musescore 3.6. However when I try to open my Musescore 4 files in Musescore 3.6 it won't let me do it- is there a way round this?
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See https://musescore.org/en/node/342956 to recover your files either via musicxml or via unzip.
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by elsewhere
Simply put. Open the file in MS4.Export as MusicXml. This opens in MS3
Consider leaving them in mxl format until you you have deleted MS4.
Uninstall does not get rid of everything. You need to run a search of your hard drive (including hidden folders) to find and delete anything MS4 related.
In reply to Simply put. Open the file in… by bobjp
Thanks- that's really helpful and it worked!
It's not clear what you mean about being complicated - actually, almost all changes have had the effect of simplifying things (and is indeed the whole point of most of the changes). If there is something in particular you are having trouble with, please let us know so we can understand and assist better. Could well be there is just a misunderstanding about how something works.
In reply to It's not clear what you mean… by Marc Sabatella
Before I had an instrument with 4 voices. I really loved MS < 4 for being able to mute all voices but the one I'm playing. I can't get this to work.
Now, I really regret to have jumped on the MS4 train to early. Therefore I want, like the original thread starter, be able to save my MS4 work as MS3. I haven't really figured out how to do that.
In reply to Before I had an instrument… by whaefelinger
Sorry, I just hijacked this thread cause I feel some of the thread starter's pain.
In reply to Before I had an instrument… by whaefelinger
You have a single instrument with four voices? That would be highly unusual - can you explain more detail what you are doing? Then we can help you find the best solution. As it is, though, you can certainly toggle the "play" property for notes a voice at a time, using View / Selection Filter to isolate the voices you want.
As for how to move work from MU4 to MU3 when necessary, export to MusicXML.
In reply to You have a single instrument… by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc,
I'm doing something like this fine gentlemen is doing, https://musescore.com/user/17368276/scores/3627951
There are two instruments
- Fürst Pless Horn (I and II); and
- Parforcehorn (PI and PII)
Each instrument has two voices.
The music sheet https://musescore.com/user/17368276/scores/3627951 is most likely not set correctly; it's for
the purpose of illustration.
Besides having a good looking music sheet I want to be able to listen to one voice only for the purpose of getting "my" voice
straight when playing.
Perhaps it's all set up wrongly. Nonetheless, it worked quite well with MS1 - MS3.
In reply to Hi Marc, I'm doing something… by whaefelinger
I'm confused, that doesn't look like one instrument with four voices - it looks like four separate instruments. Or at least, no obvious reason it couldn't be four separate instruments. That would be the way to do it in any version of MuseScore. But as mentioned, it's simple in MuseScore 4 to toggle the "Play" properties for notes, and trivially easy if they are actually separate like this. In the future, having addition buttons in the Mixer would be nice too, but meanwhile, it's only like maybe three additional clicks in MuseScore 4.
In reply to I'm confused, that doesn't… by Marc Sabatella
Ok, got it.
In reality, e.i. beyond music notation, it is written for TWO physical instruments. It appears natural to me to put it in the same manner, i.e. two instruments, each having two staves.
Now, let me try that "one stave one instrument" thing.
In reply to Hi Marc, I'm doing something… by whaefelinger
Interestingly enough, notation software nomenclature is a bit different. What you have is four staves, not four voices. Voices means something else in notation software. Even if this were a choir piece, the parts wouldn't be called voices. Strange, I know. Just the way notation software is.
Just like I have no idea what kind of instruments those are in the score.
In reply to Interestingly enough,… by bobjp
> Just like I have no idea what kind of instruments those are in the score.
See images attached. Rather esoteric instruments I must confess. Could only find Wikipedia in German:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parforcehorn ; and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BCrst-Pless-Horn.
Thanks for the clarification btw. Indeed we talk in our music groups about "voices", not staves. But ok then: I have one instrument an many staves and all I want is to play a single stave alone. Or, perhaps stave 1 and 3 or 2 and 3 and 4 and so on.