A couple of random questions...
- Musescore seems to understand some chord nomenclature. For example, if I enter a Cm7, it makes the 7 a superscript. But if I enter Caug7, it doesn't. So it seems to know what a minor 7 is, but not an augmented (at least the way I typed them). What chord nomenclature does Musescore know? Or is there some other rule it uses to superscript the number? And what if I want a C6+9 (and have 6/9 be a "6 over 9" rather than side by side)?
- Is there a way to change the note heads (or other properties) of several notes at once? I was created a drum track and had to change each note individually after I added them as regular notes.
Thanks.
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If you right-click on a chord name and select "Harmony Properties..." it shows what is recognized. I haven't used the chord names much so I don't remember if the harmony properties dialog was working in 0.9.3 or not but it works in the latest prereleases. As of r.1204 the "aug7" suffix is not included in the list of recognized chords although "aug" by itself is and so is "7#5". As a workaround you can add superscript to the 7 using F2 special text panel.
In reply to If you right-click on a chord by David Bolton
I'm currently running 0.9.4 r.1174 and the "Harmony" menu item is always grayed out.
In reply to I'm currently running 0.9.4 by mbratch
In my r1204 version, the harmony properties is enabled all the time. However, aug7 is not in the currently not supported. A request to put it in has been requested on the developers mailing list.
In reply to feature request for aug7 filed by Thomas
Last commit from yesterday showed: added chords aug7, aug9, aug13 as alternatives for 7+, 9+, 13+ (thx werner)
Once there is a new prerelease, you can check it out.
In reply to request new windows prerelease r1207 by Thomas
I checked and Caug7 seems to work. All credits to Werner!
You can change several notes heads at once by selecting them and then double clicking an item in the palette. There is also work to improve support for drum notation via mouse input in the prereleases for 0.9.4.
In reply to You can change several notes by David Bolton
Cool, I tried that and it works. Thanks!
In reply to You can change several notes by David Bolton
Taken one step further...
Can I pre-select a different note head default so that when I place notes, they use that new setting until I change it to something else?
In reply to You can change several notes by David Bolton
If you input notes via MIDI keyboard the noteheads for hi-hat and other noteheads change automatically in 0.9.3. There is some work to bring these benefits to mouse input via a drum palette in the prereleases for 0.9.4 but the implementation is a little rough at the moment.
In reply to If you input notes via MIDI by David Bolton
I was envisioning something like: click on the desired note head in the note head palette. That note head is highlighted and is the one to use until I click another. Or, perhaps have a note head on the tool bar that toggles when clicked between the choices to tell me which note head will be used on note creation. Or, select whole measures and double click a note head in the palette (individually selecting notes with the mouse is tedious) to change the notes that are in the selection. There are probably several other ways this could reasonably be done.
In reply to If you input notes via MIDI by David Bolton
If you use shift-drag select instead of whole-measure select you can add palette items to the selection. I will report this to the developers' mailing list.
In reply to If you use shift-drag select by David Bolton
That's cool David, I didn't know about the shift-drag capability. That works well. Thanks.