Microtonal Plugins
Hello fellow Musescorians! I've become interested in attempting to write and experiment using Microtones and using the microtonal scale but I've yet to find it on Musescore. I was wondering if there are any Microtonal plugins for Musescore 3 for Windows? If there are, please link them in a comment, or if they're accessible on the software without a plugin, please describe how to do it. Thank you!
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You can tune a note using the inspector.
As that does get quite laborious, there are a couple of plugins provided by community members at https://musescore.org/en/plugins
In reply to You can tune a note using… by jeetee
Thank you! I'll experiment with the Inspector
There are several plugins at https://musescore.org/en/plugins such as:
https://musescore.org/en/project/19-tet-tuning
https://musescore.org/en/project/5-117-edo-retuning-transposing-plugins…
https://musescore.org/en/project/accidental-tuner
https://musescore.org/en/project/modal-tuning
These could all be used in various ways for microtones and there may be some I missed quickly looking through the list.
In reply to There are several plugins at… by mike320
Okay, thank you! I'll check them out
In reply to There are several plugins at… by mike320
I've also made a microtonal plugin for 11EDO Orgone:
https://musescore.org/en/project/11edo-orgone7-tuning
And there's also another for Procupine:
https://musescore.org/en/project/porcupine-tunings
Accidental Tuner is really good.
I write microtonal music for piano and notate it as "scordatura" piano, I mean, I write the keys that must be played, not the sounds. Do you guys know if there is any plugin that can convert a scordatura into an actual microtonal score according to a specific tuning? Thank you in advance.
In reply to I write microtonal music for… by alvotta
Any news about this?
In reply to Any news about this? by alvotta
If you don't mind sticking to MS 3.6 there's this: https://github.com/euwbah/musescore-xen-tuner, which allows you to declare custom nominals, accidentals, or entire custom tunings per-note, though there's a learning curve for learning how to make the most out of custom tuning configurations. MS 4 will be supported once I can get it to run on my system...
In reply to If you don't mind sticking… by matt28
euwbah's xen tuner is magnificent.
> ... convert a scordatura into an actual microtonal score ...
a related Scordatura plugin that play audio but does not convert notation so probably does not help in your case, it emulates tuned instrument Tuning systems, microtonal notation system, and playback
In reply to I write microtonal music for… by alvotta
You mean the player plays his instrument as if it was regularly tuned but in the end the note produced differs from what is written ?
If so, I guess, that if you want a common detune for all the strings (e.g. F-C-G-D instead of G-D-A-E) you could manage this at the level of the staff property :
![detuned.png]( "detuned.png")
So here, if you write a A, it will sound as G.
(But you have only plain half notes, no microtonal here)
If you want to detune a the string level (e.g. G-D-A-E♭ instead of G-D-A-E), I don't see a way to do this.
Because MuseScore doesn't know on which string you are playing a certain ? Would it be on the 1st string and then it must be detuned, or on another string and then it must not be detuned. How could MuseScore know this ?
Imo, the best place to start is with 17/19 EDO, as these approximate the 12 EDO well without adding as many notes as 31 EDO (which can be overwhelming).
I wrote a plugin for MuseScore 4.x that tunes notes for 17 or 19, with customization supported