Finale offers an option to enter notes as chords on as single staff, then “explode” them to separate staves / voices. Also the reverse to build chords by combining staves/voices. Both are sometimes very useful.
This feature is critical for "arrangement" tasks. Being able to switch between N-staves (wind section or choir or whatever) and 1- or 2- staves (e.g. keyboards or conductor) is often necessary.
Thanks everybody. I had already seen the videos and the discussion. I just wanted to point out the importance of this feature (and of its speed) for making more and more musicians move to MuseScore.
The way shown in the videos looks more like a workaround than like a feature. And its limitations are strong: no more than 4 voices, and it doesn't work with chords on one voice. This would scare any arranger deciding which score writing software to use.
Maybe it would be easy to implement voice splitting on staves as a one-click task, while waiting for the real implode/explode feature.
Anyway MuseScore is great and you are doing a great work! :)
It occuurs to me that this is "sort of" doable via a plugin, using chords and thus not being limited to four parts. Explode would work by having you first copy the chords to each voice, then the plugin would remove the extraneous notes. The whole process would be quite simple, but the need to do the copy manually can't be avoided without extensions to the plugin architecture as far as I can see. Implode would be more straightforward though. Assuming you only needed to handle the simple cases - all parts with exact same rhythm, no special needs regarding articulations, etc.
Not perfect, but see this: http://musescore.org/en/node/11331. To install, just copy the files from the zip into your "plugins" folder and restart MuseScore.
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This feature is critical for "arrangement" tasks. Being able to switch between N-staves (wind section or choir or whatever) and 1- or 2- staves (e.g. keyboards or conductor) is often necessary.
Critical is reserved for crash or data corruption. There is a way to explode/implode with voices btw. Not with chords.
Check these videos : http://www.screenr.com/hJ8s http://www.screenr.com/ZIe
Think there was a similar discussion ?
Thanks everybody. I had already seen the videos and the discussion. I just wanted to point out the importance of this feature (and of its speed) for making more and more musicians move to MuseScore.
The way shown in the videos looks more like a workaround than like a feature. And its limitations are strong: no more than 4 voices, and it doesn't work with chords on one voice. This would scare any arranger deciding which score writing software to use.
Maybe it would be easy to implement voice splitting on staves as a one-click task, while waiting for the real implode/explode feature.
Anyway MuseScore is great and you are doing a great work! :)
It occuurs to me that this is "sort of" doable via a plugin, using chords and thus not being limited to four parts. Explode would work by having you first copy the chords to each voice, then the plugin would remove the extraneous notes. The whole process would be quite simple, but the need to do the copy manually can't be avoided without extensions to the plugin architecture as far as I can see. Implode would be more straightforward though. Assuming you only needed to handle the simple cases - all parts with exact same rhythm, no special needs regarding articulations, etc.
Not perfect, but see this: http://musescore.org/en/node/11331. To install, just copy the files from the zip into your "plugins" folder and restart MuseScore.
I have implemented a native explode / implode facility, here is the PR:
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/1444
Great!
Thanks for your work, I see MuseScore 2.0 is going to be great!
Assume fixed?
Yes, the follow up PR https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/1456 has been merged, long time ago
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.