Add new plucked instruments; allow saves of custom instruments
It would be handy to have among the plucked instruments available the baritone ukulele (tuned EBGD) and the guilele (aka guitarlele, guitalele, etc.) (tuned AECGDA). These two are becoming more popular. Also useful would be the ability to configure an instrument (as I have to do now, adapting the standard ukulele to the baritone tuning) and then save it as a custom instrument so that it could be called up immediately without having to reconfigure each time. This suggestion has been made by others.
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You can already do this - having configured your instrument and set up a blank score to your liking, you can save it as a Custom Template. It will then show up in the New Score Wizard. https://musescore.org/en/handbook/create-new-score#user-templates-folder
In reply to You can already do this -… by Brer Fox
Thank you, Brer Fox. This solution works when you know at the start what instruments you want. However, let's suppose I've already developed my score and decide to change an accompanying instrument from the default ukulele (soprano tuning) to baritone uke. Or add a baritone uke to the score. In this case I'd have to reconfigure the instrument from scratch. With the save-custom-instrument feature I've requested, it would be easy at any time to insert an instrument I'd already configured. I think it would be a useful feature (e.g. for guitarists who use custom tunings) and shouldn't be too hard to implement.
In reply to Thank you, Brer Fox. This… by David Mayerovitch
you can add your own instrument xml
In reply to you can add your own… by wolfgan
Thank you, wolfgan. Unfortunately I don't know how to do that, but it's good to know that it can be done.
In reply to Thank you, wolfgan… by David Mayerovitch
Just for information: https://musescore.org/en/node/15803.
In reply to Just for information: https:… by kuwitt
Thanks, kuwitt. This looks simple enough.
In reply to Thanks, kuwitt. This looks… by David Mayerovitch
Looks useful! Note that the baritone ukulele is already present - it's listed in the wizard under "all instruments" rather than "common instruments". None of your other ones are, of course.
In reply to Looks useful! Note that the… by Brer Fox
Thanks again, BF. Being new to MuseScore I hadn't been aware of the all/common option.
Did you get to add the guitalele? I'm struggling with it...