A big score and playback
I have a question.
When using a big score, larger than the current window, each time i press playback, the score view jumps to the top of the score, effectively hiding the section i'm working on.
Is there a preference setting, or some sort of configuration function that i can set to induce playback, but keep the view where it is?
Alex.
Linux.
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I would like to see this as well. Does anyone know if there is already a way to “anchor” the view at some designated point?
In the meantime, you might try reducing the size of your view to encompass more staves. Reduction to 75% for example might be useful in some situations. Perhaps the staff size would still be large enough to be readable and the view would encompass the staves you were needing to see. But this is not always a satisfactory solution.
In reply to A big score and playback by Bill Watkins
Bill, i'm using the size reduction now, but with 32 staves, it's getting more like fly droppings, than a definable document. :)
Alex.
In reply to reduction by alex stone
Yes, I can sympathize. Doing a full orchestral score and trying to monitor the celli and basses during playback is quite a challenge. Maybe someone will heed our plea and create a way of locking the vertical scrolling during playback.
In reply to A big score and playback by Bill Watkins
I too would love to see this! Along with playback, two other things that currently always reset the view to the top of the current system or page are chord entry and scrolling via page up/down. This makes working with large scores - ones in which one system takes up a full page vertically - much more awkward than need be.
In reply to I too would love to see this! by Marc Sabatella
Chord entry locks to the top of the page? I haven't experienced this. Do you mean entry of chord names like "Cmin" and "Bb7"?
In reply to Chord entry locks to the top by David Bolton
Yes. When scoring for a large ensemble, it is typical that one system might take up an entire page. Assuming your view is set large enough that the whole page doesn't fit on screen, if you position the view at the bottom of the page to see one of the bottom staves, then select a note and hit Ctrl-K to enter a chord symbol. The view immediately jumps to the top of the page, meaning you cannot see the chord you are entering (if you then scroll down, it works fine). I had submitted that as issue http://musescore.org/en/node/9338. Present in both 1.0 and trunk.
I mentioned that here because it seems possible the same root cause might be involved.
Has anyone found a work around to this issue? Or is this maybe fixed in svn?
In reply to Has anyone found a work by ghert
Ok, I found one workaround: It seems that this automatic scrolling to the top of the page only occurs when the last/lowest staff is shown. So, I created few extra staffs to the bottom which are never used. So now I can see the last used stave during playback without it scrolling up.
Is there any improvement about that scrolling issue ?
The workaround, of course, do the trick but maybe that point deserves a more convenient solution, because the ease of viewing in play-back is a very important thing (I think), and is of great help for students, beginners or childs (especialy bassists !!).
It'd gain a lot being really easy and quick.
Will the next version improve this ?
Another (same) tread about this :
//musescore.org/en/node/12200
and another interesting idea in the feature requests :
//musescore.org/en/node/10292
Thanks to everyone who's doing really great job on this great software !
And Happy new year to all !
In reply to Some real solution by cuckoo
The in-development version 2.0 supports scrolling/moving around the score while playing back.
bump 11 years later and this bug still persists. It is possible to pull the bottom lines down to the bottom of the screen but I'd say we most more than a few aspiring composers over the last decade to this one alone...
In reply to bump 11 years later and this… by spyemanciator
If you mean you wish to be able to view the bottom of the score during playback, this has been possible for many years now. Either switch to continuous view, or turn off the "pan score automatically" button.
In reply to If you mean you wish to be… by Marc Sabatella
Hello. I am not sure if you are familiar with the software you are commenting on, but if you turn off the pan score automatically button, then it will not scroll horizontally.