Help with percussion note writing
So I was ripping a midi of a song from a GBA game, I turn the percussion into a snare drum, but it acts as though it is an entire drum set! So I need to know how to select a giant group of notes and change them all to the same pitch/note. (Please no joke responses about manually doing it)
-Cyan
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If they were all snare drums in the original MIDI file, they should remain so now, so it's unclear what might be going on to prevent that working as it should. In order to understand and do more than guess at possibilities, we'd need you to attach the MIDI file you are having trouble with.
If on the other hand you actually *are* wanting to convert music that was originally written for an entire drumset using a variety of different pitches into music for snare drum only, easiest way I can think of to do that would be using "repitch mode" - the icon next to the "N" on the note input toolbar. Enable that, then type the desired key and hold it to change the notes one at a time in a single (long) action.
In reply to If they were all snare drums by Marc Sabatella
P.S. Note that you have to be in "note-entry" mode to enable the re-pitch tool, so click the the N button first or press ('n') before attempting to enable the re-pitch button ('ctrl+shift+i').
In reply to P.S. Note that you have to be by worldwideweary
Here's a link to the file https://mega.nz/#!x0ZmXBiB!KRabUqyjUvopaMepEsdbdPbfllhnkOmTBqEcBEcz3bo
In reply to Here's a link to the file by PsYan
In order to understand what is going on, we really need to see the MIDI file itself. Best to just attach it here.
As it is, the available evidence still suggests your MIDI file actually contained lots of different notes, not just snare drums, on the snare track, and MuseScore is simply honoring that.
In reply to P.S. Note that you have to be by worldwideweary
It sounds like you want a group re-pitch mode. I'm new to ever using repitching, but it doesn't look like it works that way because it's contingent upon Note-entry mode as a single note entry mechanism. This would be a decent feature request, unless you can do this and I'm overlooking something.
E.G: Take two measures of different pitches and different timings: select both measures and then enter repitch mode and press C for instance and get the same timings all with the pitch of C.
There's something funny with the drumset.
There are only two definitions:
A for sidestick,
B for snare,
yet if I press B to insert a snare re-pitch over a note, the resulting sound is like a crash. This takes away the ability to re-pitch properly. Maybe try a new Snare track and copy paste and then try it to see if that works, or change the drumset shortcut to another letter to see if that removes the problem. Either way, it looks like you'll still run into problems with multiple voices while doing it, so you might want to re-import the midi file and in the midi options only allow one voice for the snare track. This might help. Good luck, dude.
In reply to There's something funny with by worldwideweary
I can reproduce a similar problem if I copy and paste a drumset part to a snare drum staff. The snare staff will show a normal snare drumset - two notes defined, shortcuts A & B - and those shortcut work fine for normal note entry. But in repitch mode, they behave erratically.
This is worth submitting as a separate bug report - I'll do that.
See #154816: Shortcuts may produce wrong notes in repitch mode on percussion staves. Looks like it is specific to repitch mode on unpitched percussion staves using keyboard shortcuts; double click works fine.