Suggest Explode Improvement
The Explode feature works very well for some measures. Attahced are screenshots of a measure that Explode works very well (all notes in same voice or all note voices are correctly assigned). When some of the notes in a measure are in the same voice (blue) and some of the notes have a separate voice) or a combination which has one note used for both voices but shown only once) it does not explode correctly for the two parts.
I use this feature every time I am creating separate mp3 part files for our choir's individual practice. I suggest improvement in this area, if possible.
Thank you!
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Comments
I'd say you've answered your own question:
"... Explode works very well [when] all notes [are] in same voice or all note voices are correctly assigned"
Make sure the notes are all correctly assigned to the appropriate voices.
In fact, I'd say that performing an Explode is probably a good way to verify that you've got all notes assigned correctly, even if the Imploded version is what you want to end up with.
In reply to I'd say you've answered your… by TheHutch
Thank you for the reply. That is exactly the suggested improvement, to automatically put those notes in the right voice. Assigning notes to appropriate voices is a simple standard process. It would be nice if the program could do that for you. Thanks
In reply to Thank you for the reply. … by carlsonbm50@gm…
I'm sorry. I didn't communicate that well at all.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for a computer to figure out which notes should be in which voice. That is an artistic choice that ONLY the composer/arranger/transcriber can do. Any particular choice of 'this note to Voice 1 and that note to Voice 2' that I might make, another composer might make another way.
In reply to I'm sorry. I didn't… by TheHutch
Thank you for answering, but my suggestion is only for simple decisions regarding SATB pieces. As you know, as it works now:
Case 1 - As long as chord notes are both shown in voice 1 in selected measures, and there are no voice 2 notes, using the MuseScore Explode command correctly separates them into voice 1 on the upper staff and voice 2 on the lower staff.
Case 2 - As long as all of the notes for all beats for both voices are shown in the selected measures, MuseScore correctly separates them into voice 1 on the top staff and voice 2 on the bottom staff.
What I am suggesting is, adding a case 3. If MuseScore detects two voices in the measure and it includes a chord shown only in voice 1, then separate that chord into two voices like it does on case 2.
I’m sure that saying what needs to be done may be easy but building the code to make it happen may not be easy. I would think this should be realistically possible. Right now, I would think that MuseScore must look at each beat or note and decide how to handle it.
Thank you for your time.