"Play selected range" command

• Jun 14, 2024 - 01:02

Idea is that you select just the measures across just the staves you want to hear, and have it play back just that range - always starting at the beginning and stopping at the end, only playing notes that are in the staves selected. The current play command continues after the range ends, and more importantly, after stopping and restarting continues from where it last left off.
For "proof-listening" a particularly fiddly section that needs a bit of work this would be super helpful.
For day 1, could be accessible only via shortcut key (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+space?).


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In reply to by TheHutch

Sure, but I don't want to loop it, just play it once, make an adjustment, then play again. Also to change the range it seems to have you turn loop mode on and off again.
Also I was seeing that if I changed the playback cursor position (by deselecting/selecting), but remained in loop mode, the loop markers remained but were ignored (reverting to normal playback mode).

In reply to by Dylan Nicholson1

Dylan Nicholson1 wrote > ... I don't want to loop [the selection] just play it once, make an adjustment, then play again.

+1

I'd definitely use such a feature. Fantastic idea. Like having auto-locate points.

Dylan Nicholson1 wrote > Also to change the range it seems to have you turn loop mode on and off again.

The Play Panel was more flexible in MS 3.6. During pause in 3.6 you could change the selection, and though the flags did not immediately update, they'd display properly on Play to include the notes in the newly made selection. Sadly we don't have a debugged version of that in MS4.3.2's undocked Playback Panel.

Dylan Nicholson1 wrote > Also I was seeing that if I changed the playback cursor position (by deselecting/selecting), but remained in loop mode, the loop markers remained but were ignored (reverting to normal playback mode).

Yes, there's much to restore/improve.

Updates to MS4's looping features would really help scorists and students. For starters, we should have perfectly smooth looping, with no hesitation playing from the loop end to the beginning—sometimes I get that, but not consistently.

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