Phantom slurs

• Jul 26, 2016 - 23:44

I created a score in Muse 1.1 and had some slurs I couldn't delete, so I just dragged them to the area between systems and left them there like... long lost musical eyelashes.

I just downloaded 2.0 and was able to delete some of them, but a couple are randomly in the middle of a measure and I can't click them. I can get the notes, the barline, etc, but not the slur.

Any tips?

Also, if I select more than two notes that I want to slur, why does the slur only appear over the first two, causing me to have to add the step of dragging it across all the notes I want slurred?

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• Jul 27, 2016 - 01:14

The basic answer is that if any element is dragged off the page, it can't be selected, even if it appears on another page. The only way to get at it is to add a similar element (in this case, a slur), right-click it, Select All Similar Elements, and reset their positions with [Ctrl]+[R] (Mac: [Cmd]+[R]). Once they're all back to their default positions, you can handle them normally (which includes the ability to delete them—I can't imagine why that wouldn't work). So that's the solution to the present issue.

As to the "Also," I have to say I'm perplexed. If I select more than two notes that I want to slur, the slur covers everything I had selected. Can you describe very precisely how you're attempting to do it?

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• Jul 27, 2016 - 04:45

Thanks so much!

Your answer to part 1 worked perfectly.

As to the "Also"... I click the first note, then shift-click the last note that I want to slur, which highlights them all in the blue box. Then I drag the slur to the first note, but it only ever connects to the note right next to it. And there doesn't seem to be a way for me to drag it across the multiple notes that I want until after I've already attached the slur. I feel like I'm trying to preset the notes I want to slur, but always end up having to drag the end from the 2nd note, to the last note, wherever that may be.

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• Jul 27, 2016 - 04:49

Aha! If you drag items out of the palette, then you can only drag it to one place—in this case, the single note that you drop the slur on top of. To apply an item from a palette to everything selected, double-click it instead. Or, for slurs, press [S].

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