Adding a note without replacing the existing one; thus moving the whole piece one step forward
You know how when typing in a text editor, if the tab key is pressed, whenever one types, the letters added replace the existing ones?
I request for the possibility to not have the "tab"- mode activated in musescore!
I forgot a note when I was typing up a piece, and it seems I have to copy paste and move the whole thing by hand, and even then, I have to move it an entire beat. I wrote about this in another part of the forum, turns out I'm not alone in wanting this either!
So if this is added as a feature, there are many users who will be grateful!
Comments
this does come up time and time again.
The problem with that is that MuseScore has no way of knowing whether you want to move the following notes in the current measure only, in the next x measures or all or the rest of the score, and what to do with the overflow, cut of or add another measure. Whatever MuseScore would do for you, it'd be wrong more than 50% of the time.
So just use cut and paste.
In reply to this does come up time and by Jojo-Schmitz
All those concerns doesn't mean there can't be a mode where a user simply chooses what of those behaviors they want. Then they can use that mode reliably and get the behavior they expect. There's only good excuse not to offer this sort of mode is the existence of higher priority things.
One version is even to have a dialog where one chooses the behavior each time for a "nudge" of everything, thus leaving a rest in place which can be made a note, or removing time from existing notes, depending how the nudge works and the settings chosen.
In reply to All those concerns doesn't by wolftune
Just a thought:
If we ever implement a "macro" facility where you can define a series of operations to be a new single command, then this could be one application of that.
For instance, once you've selected a region you want moved one beat later in time, the following sequence of operations would have that effect:
1) cut selection
2) change duration of first remaning rest in selection to the desired length (eg, quarter)
3) move cursor one space to the right
4) paste
Maybe I'm crazy, but developing a macro facility like might not be all that hard, could even be a reasonable Google Summer of Code project. We already have most commands implemented in such a way that they can be invoked by keyboard shortcut or menu item, all I am talking about is a way to have a single shortcut or menu item invoke a series of commands. As long as you limit your macro to commands that don't lose the selection, you could actually probably do some pretty cool things this way.
Hello,
are there other music notation programs, which already have this feature?