Does MuseScore import or export pedal change directions in MusicXML?
I'm looking into exporting scores from Sibelius in MusicXML and importing them into MS and vice-versa. I noticed that MuseScore ignored pedal change directions in the imported MusicXML, and also doesn't write them. By pedal change, I mean the kind of them notated by a pedal line that creates an upside down V at a point in the music. They seem to be notatible from the palette. This is piano music. I also noticed that default playback seems to ignore them.
Can anyone confirm this, or tell me how to export pedal change directions?
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These upside down Vs are a result of one pedal line ending with a 45° hook and the next and adjacent pedal line starting with a 45° hook, they are not a separate glyph
It seems they do get sort of exported, but not imported properly, probably due to not getting exported correctly in the first place
See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/18159 and https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/19132
In reply to It seems they do get sort of… by Jojo-Schmitz
Sibelius exports them as pedal direction type "change." It seems that MuseScore doesn't know how to handle, either in import or export, "change." For the inverted v's, it exports them as a pedal "start" followed by a pedal "stop" a beat later, which isn't even in the correct order if you were trying to represent a pedal change. But there's actually no way to represent a pedal change using "start" and "stop"; only "change" has the right meaning.
Also, MuseScore doesn't seem to play pedal changes back correctly in its own playback system. To my ear, it's doing nothing with the pedal at the point of a change (specifically, leaving it down).
In reply to Sibelius exports them as… by Michael Mossey
Try the latest nightly build, it should improve the sutuation, esp. 4dc5ba0
My 3.7 has it also
In reply to The above mentioned PR… by Jojo-Schmitz
It does look promising. There are some problems with the appearance of scores, and it begins a pedal line with type="continue" which is not right according to MusicXML specs I read. It should be type="start" for the beginning of a pedal line. type="continue" marks the beginning of a pedal line that continues a previous line, say on a previous system, with the assumption that the pedal has been held down up to that moment and should still be held down. But it does have type="change" in the right places.
I bet the developers will fix these things in time.
Do you know how long it might take for this nightly patch to make it into an official release? How far apart are official releases?
In reply to It does look promising… by Michael Mossey
4.2 is planned for December, we're currently in feature freeze