Selecting Individual Notes Within a Chord (Same Voice) in MuseScore 4
Hello, is there a way to select specific notes within a chord, for example just the 1st and 3rd among 5 notes, when all notes belong to the same voice in MuseScore 4?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Not yet, but soon. A revision/improvement of the Selection Filter will enable this. This is a work in progress for the next version 4.6. But no fix is ready yet. What's more, this enhancement was supposed to be available for 4.5, before being postponed, so we must remain cautious as to the date of release... See: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/21091
Well, yes. Click one of the notes, then Ctrl+click the other. This does exactly (and only) what you described. If you need to select the first and third of many chords continue Ctrl+clicking the notes in subsequent chords. This can get tiring if you have a lot of chords, but it can be done.
In reply to Well, yes. Click one of the… by TheHutch
Well, yes ? Well, what do you do now with the notes you've just selected with Ctrl + click, apart from deleting them (I'm not sure at all that's what the OP wants). Just the pleasure of selecting notes?
@st11: for the record, until the selection filter is improved, you can try this plugin: https://musescore.org/en/project/chord-level-filter. Or this one: https://musescore.org/en/project/chord-level-selector
Although they are displayed as V4-compatible, you should check that some have not been updated following the release of version 4.4 and the switch to Qt6.
A simple example to make that clear. I have 100 measures with octaves and I want to split these in two instruments, the lower note will be played from Instr. A and the higher from Instr. B. It would be very nice if I could select only the upper notes of many measures by drag and drop and copy (better cut) them and paste them to the other stave. That is not possible, all notes belonging to the same voice will be selected automatically. I guess it could be previously done using this https://musescore.org/en/project/chord-level-filter but it does not work with Musescore 4.
I think the 1st answer is really about it, hopefully it will be implemented soon. Thank you.
In reply to A simple example to make… by st111
Can you attach this score? There was a very useful split point with MS3, but it no longer exists with MS4. If you still have MS3 on your computer, this could be a workaround. In addition, with a MIDI file, the MIDI Import panel would also allow this very easily (which no longer exists too with MS4)
With MS4, the “Explode” function could be useful. This should work (see: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/implode-and-explode#explode), but you'd have to check with your score.