"Play Second Time Only"
There should be a feature to have a repeated section only play the second or first time. This is somewhat common in music and I would love to see it implemented.
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See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/voltas
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Sure, but that only affects the repeats, so we can't mute it the first time. Right? It also doesn't support a carried over note from a repeat that "bleeds" onto the first measure of the section and isn't played the first time around. Or did you mean to place voltas over the section and manage them that way? That broke playback for me.
Help us out here. Given this section, what would you do to get it to play as intended?
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(This just an example; someone can take this Tacet.mscz)
In reply to Sure, but that only affects… by hdt80bro
You need musicians reading the instructions ;-)
In reply to Sure, but that only affects… by hdt80bro
Fair enough, I suppose that there's only so much that we can fit into the program. Tacet/play marks would probably be easily broken (artificially toggling mute--things already go weird when touching that button during playback), and playback would be horrendous & inconsistent when playing starting in a section (i.e. which repeat does it start on? Mute states need to be retained and not letting it makes it unpredictable). Just unroll the repeats, I guess; I heard somewhere that they're looking into that...
In reply to Fair enough, I suppose that… by hdt80bro
"which repeat does it start on?" The first of course. If I start playback in the middle of a repeated section then it always repeats, hence it started on the 1st time.
I would really like the "tacet first time" or equivalent option
In reply to "which repeat does it start… by Victotronics
Linking into the issue tracker #72791: Add a "second time only" option (For repeats, not Volta)