Manually configurable grace notes playback speed?
Hello, I have been using Musescore 2 for some years now, I'm in love with this software. Now I'm a little reluctant to update to Musescore 3. I see a lot of things have improved but there's something I really miss about Musescore 2.
I really liked that, in Musescore 2, grace notes added AFTER the note did not affect on playback at all, and you just saw them on paper. That way the next main note did fall on beat. I have read a lot of threads in this forum already regarding this matter, but please bear with me.
Of course I like the posibility to hear grace notes on playback, but right now most of them are implemented as Appoggiaturas which span 50% the duration of the main note. It sounds too long in most of the cases, and I prefer to turn the playback off. The problem is that they still have an effect on playback, as they sound as rests that last for the same duration. I wish there was a way to manually set them to last less, or to don't affect playback at all.
Right now I know that I could be using Acciaccaturas which last 65ms - as the developer explained in this useful thread:
https://musescore.org/en/node/111346
But I really want to use 32nd grace notes to be visually consistent with my past scores. I don't understand why they doesn't sound at least as real 32nd notes.
Sorry for the rant. Has somebody figured out a way to completely turn off grace notes, or is there a way to suggest changes in the implementation for this to be user configurable? Or should I just stick with Musescore 2?
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https://musescore.org/en/project/articulation-and-ornamentation-control
In reply to https://musescore.org/en… by [DELETED] 1831606
Thank you so much!
I have been tinkering with your plugins for a while and it's exactly what I needeed!
Thanks for taking the time to make these and share them, it's awesome.
If you accept a suggestion, perhaps it would be nice to be able to select a bunch of different grace notes and change the settings simultaneously for all of them, so they are all equal. But I don't know if it takes too much time to implement.
In reply to Thank you so much! I have… by Yinith
Thanks. That's not very easy in the current UX, because they might be on main notes of different lengths, and currently, the appoggiature are expressed in terms of a fraction of the main note, not absolute ticks or time. I've recorded the suggestion nevertheless.
In reply to Thanks. That's not very… by [DELETED] 1831606
I understand.
But maybe it would be enough to be able to put them all to start at 900‰ and finish at 1000‰, instead of the default 500‰ - 1000‰.
A couple of other points:
Since you say you've read on the matter, presumably you are aware that appoggiaturas are supposed to play long, that is what differentiates them from acciaccaturas. If you want short playback, instead of faking this using the wrong element (grace note after on the previous note, which means something different), better to just add the acciaccatura. You can always hide the slash if that bothers you for some reason.
For scores where you've already used grace notes after in this way, you can disable the playback of those notes (or any others) using the Play checkbox in the Inspector.
The new plugin sounds great, I haven't had the opportunity to try it but look forward to it!