According to ChatGPT, MS4 can do mictones, but I don't see how.

• May 12, 2023 - 20:15

Here's what ChatGPT says:

MuseScore 4 does have support for microtonal notation, but it may not be immediately apparent how to use it. Here's how you can notate microtones in MuseScore 4:

Select the note or rest where you want to add a microtonal symbol.
Right-click on the selected note or rest and choose "Note Properties" from the context menu.
In the "Note Properties" dialog box, click on the "Accidental" dropdown menu and choose "Other" at the bottom.
In the "Symbol" field, you can enter a Unicode value for the desired microtonal symbol. For example, you can enter "U+2669" for a quarter-tone sharp (♯̸), or "U+266A" for a quarter-tone flat (♪̸).
Click "OK" to close the dialog box and apply the microtonal symbol to the note or rest.
You can also create a custom palette of microtonal symbols for easy access. To do this, you can follow these steps:

Open the "Master Palette" by clicking on the "Palettes" button in the toolbar and choosing "Master Palette" from the dropdown menu.
Right-click on an empty space in the "Master Palette" and choose "Add Palette" from the context menu.
Give the new palette a name, such as "Microtones".
Drag and drop the desired microtonal symbols from the "Symbols" section of the "Master Palette" onto the new "Microtones" palette.
Close the "Master Palette".
Now you can access your custom microtonal palette by clicking on the "Palettes" button in the toolbar and choosing "Microtones" from the dropdown menu.


Comments

Some things to consider:

Right click on a note and "Note Properties" is not on the list.
I dare say few users of notation software know what a Unicode value is. I don't, though that's a low bar.
There don't seem to be any Microtonal symbols in the master palette.

All in all, this new tech is not very useful, yet.

None of this is in the manual. Seems it's made up.

Since ChatGPT is based on info from 2021 and MuseScore 4 didn't release until the very end of 2022, there is no way it can possibly provide useful info.

Anyhow, the correct method is, select the notes in question, then look click the Playback button in the Properties panel, an adjust the tuning as desired there. There are are pre-installed plugins that can do certain tunings automatically - you just need to enable them in Plugins / Manage plugins first.

Note that the Muse Sounds orchestral library does not yet support this. Or more to the point, the library itself does, but it hasn't been hooked up to MuseScore properly yet. So stick to soundfonts for now.

The microtonal accidentals are supported for notation but don't affect playback.

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