Colours of voices
I it possible to colour the notes in the different voices? Thanks.
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See https://musescore.org/nl/project/color-notes-each-voice
& manual on how to use plugins
In reply to See https://musescore.org/nl… by elsewhere
I installed that plugin and nothing happened. Possibly it will not colour voices in the same staff (see bar 11 melody first chord)? It seems to have coloured the first note in voice 1 as orange!
In reply to I installed that plugin and… by happyhacker
If you are on MU3.6 use the attached qml (Line 229 quit must be commented out).
Your note is orange because it is in voice 3. Each staff has 4 voices. See test.mscz
The color scheme is the same as the toolbar:
Voice 1 - Blue, Voice 2 - Green, Voice 3 - Yellow, Voice 4 - Purple
In reply to If you are on MU3.6 use the… by elsewhere
Thanks so much for that. I have version 4.0.1.23... I opened test.mscz and saw the colours OK. I have now loaded the file you gave me and it seems to work strangely where in voice 1 I have many colours and voice 2 (orange but in voice 1 as well. Maybe it doesn't work in version 4 yet.
In reply to Thanks so much for that. I… by happyhacker
It does work in Mu3 and Mu4
In reply to If you are on MU3.6 use the… by elsewhere
No need to comment it out, in Mu3 it merly emits a warning (in the Plugin Editor's console) that can savely get ignored
In reply to No need to comment it out by Jojo-Schmitz
Agreed, but why did the OP only get 1 note colored then?, saying 'nothing happened'. But all's well that ends well...
In reply to Agreed, but why did the OP… by elsewhere
Because (s)he selected only one, presumably
In reply to I installed that plugin and… by happyhacker
It colors the selected notes. Or everything, if nothing is selected
In reply to It colores the selected… by Jojo-Schmitz
Well my desire was to have one voice one colour and voice 2 another so it doesn't work unless it is designed to make everything pretty. I gather from the replies that there is no need to 'comment out' line xxx but I'm not a programmer. So if you agree with me then I will remove the plugin and carry on without.
PS, if I try to toggle the plugin off that does not work (I thought that was a feature). So I temp removed it from the folder and had to 'not save' the file to revert otherwise I assume the colours would be 'stuck'.
In reply to Well my desire was to have… by happyhacker
That is what that plugin does
I am trying to do this too. Using Musescore 4.3.2 & have enabled the 'Color notes plugin'.
What i see is that on selecting any note that I added as voice 1 - the notehead turns blue ... but then back to black when I select the next note or bar. If I add notes in 'Voice 2' - they show green. (see attachment - notes inside the red circle are for voice 2)
So the plugin is 'doing something' - the the colour setting does not persist .... it switches back to black - especially on export. I c an see the differences 'bar by bar' - but not for the whole piece.
I wanted to have both voices displayed - but each voice using its own colour to make it easier to see the voice.
In reply to I am trying to do this too. … by cfrost
When selected voice 1 notes show blue, voice 2 notes show green, that hasn't got to do anything with any plugin
When having used the plugin color notes or color voices, the noteheads get colored and stay colored, even on print
In reply to I am trying to do this too. … by cfrost
Here's a screenshot of a measure after having run the color voices plugin:
![Screenshot 2024-07-24 224246.png]( "Screenshot 2024-07-24 224246.png")
In reply to Here's a screenshot of a… by Jojo-Schmitz
OK - thanks - 'color voices' is the functionality that I am looking for. I can now see that 'Color Notes' plugin gives each note a different colour. After a very careful read of the handbook on how to install plugins, this is now working.