How to play certain notes without swing in a chart
As far as I've been able to look up, I couldn't find a way to disable swing in-between bars that is as easy as this solution. Basically, all you have to do is created a tuplet with the same value as your eighth/sixteenth notes that you do not want to have a swing feel, and make that part invisible (Preferably with some text for performers so they know what to do). For example, if you want 4 eighth notes in a bar to not be swung you would create a quadruplet of a half note that has the same position you want those eighth notes to be. This can be done for any length as well, so you could "unswing" 3 eighth notes by doing this to a dotted quarter, although for lengths that don't have an equivalent note (like 5 eighths) you would have to combine different lengths of tuplets (2 and 3 in this case). See example below.
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For one your first measure isn't swung at all, and also to unswing is far easier.
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/swing and check the staff/system texts' properies
In reply to For one your first measure… by Jojo-Schmitz
I was explicitly outlining it for the playback (which is only what this solution affects anyways). If you'll listen to the example, you will hear that the first part is indeed swung. In a regular piece, your eighth notes might be small enough such that putting the straight time marker will not fit, although you could make it invisible (but you'd still have to put text). It also is a lot of hassle in my opinion for a few eighth notes, and if that motif is repeated throughout the piece it adds up.
In reply to I was explicitly outlining… by crushforcex
Right, your first measure indeed is swung. I guess you did it by tweaking the notes with the pianoroll editor? How else?
Still the swingtext is far easier to use. And you have to tell the musicians to stop swing anyhow, so playback and text both need to be there and match
BTW: instead of making the tuplet number invisible you can disable it via Inspector, set number to none