Control feature for each note
I would like to see an advanced mode for Musescore. The plan would be to have the basic mode work the simple way it does. The advanced mode would add a feature where you would select each note and this would bring up a separate window. In this window you would have precise control over the note. You would then be able to adjust both the pitch and the volume of each note over its duration thereby allowing more accurate control and better simulating instruments that have this control such as bowed or wind instruments. This would allow you to have control over a vibrato making it more expressive. It would also be a way to make the volume of the note change during its playback. If playback is an issue then perhaps the advanced mode would have an option to either render the music before playback or to just play it in the simple mode. I think this feature would bring Musescore into a category all by its self.
This is my first post here. I have been using Musescore for awhile and have found it to work better than most expensive alternatives. I am a violin teacher so I know stringed instruments and how they work, I also do IT work and understand the limitations of technology. I also work with video using blender as a video editor. I currently use Musescore to compose original music for my videos and use Audacity to balance everything (allows me to get around the crescendo limitations of Musescore) as well as adding performance music to the mix. I have also had collage courses in Music composition and counterpoint.
I also, would like to say what a great job the programmers have done with this program. It is a rare thing to find a such a stable and useful program. Look forward to what the future looks like for this program.
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Welcome! Most of this is already there, in the Inspector, except for the thing about adding vibrato.
In reply to Welcome! Most of this is by Isaac Weiss
Inspector just looks like you can adjust the volume or the pitch over the whole note. What I am thinking is more of a graphical representation over the time of the whole note and being able to adjust the volume and pitch at any point or points throughout the playback of the note. Simply adjusting the pitch or volume for the whole note does not do anything for expression. As an example in the real world, when I play the violin with the bow, A can do a really nice effect where I play a note solid and then give it a little vibrato at the end. Which is the way vibrato was first used during the time of Mozart or Beethoven. Also, I can make it as loud or as soft as I want throughout the whole note, and can even do this several times within one note. I think this would open up another world of expression that would more closely match what these instruments can do.
In reply to Inspector just looks like you by nzv58l
If may be useful to you: right-click on a measure and choose "Pianoroll Editor" from the menu.
In reply to If may be useful to you: by Shoichi
I am actually more comfortable in regular notation..
I was thinking of something like this
and then you could drag the lines however you would like it to be.
In reply to I am actually more by nzv58l
I hate to disappoint, but something like that is extremely unlikely to ever be a part of MuseScore. MuseScore is a program for creating sheet music. There's work enough to be done on that front. Playback facilities do matter, but not like they do in real audio workstations. What you're suggesting would be incredibly complicated for the developers to create and of use to very few MuseScore users. There's just not the resources for it—unless you're a programmer able to implement it yourself.
In reply to I am actually more by nzv58l
This is something that is much more in line with what might be done in Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software - it is indeed way way beyond what notation programs are ordinary designed to deal with. Jst as word processors don't generally incldue font designing capabilities, etc.