how to move the cursor?
I see nothing about how to move the cursor. Now the only way I can determine is to get out of note entry mode and click on the staff and measure where I want it, then go back into mode. Shouldn't there be a shortcut set up so I can move the cursor in a less cumbersome way? If there is, shouldn't it be explained?
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The cursor keys (AKA arrow keys) do move the curser. Inside Note entry more and outside. Right and left arrow move to next resp. previous note/rest, up and down arrow move the selected note up resp. down (and do nothing on a rest).
No surprise here, nor cumbersome in any form or shape, not to me at least?
In reply to The cursor keys (AKA arrow by Jojo-Schmitz
As we're on the subject, I'm fine with how the cursor works but there's one thing I'm really missing and that's the ability to jump between staves. (It's cmd-up & cmd-down in finale if I remember correctly.) As I primarily work on a cappella vocal music, my chords are always spread out over multiple staves and having to get out of edit mode all the time to switch staves is kind of a pain.
Am I missing a shortcut? Or is it maybe wise to put a feature request for this?
In reply to As we're on the subject, I'm by Robert-Jon
A short-cut to move the note entry cursor from one stave to antoher would be surely useful.
In the meantime, for moving to antoher stave without exiting note entry mode, I tend to use the mouse: click on the stave line or space of the 'other' stave where you want to place its next note and a note will be put there without exiting note entry mode. From there you can go on with the usual keyboard commands until you need to change stave again (my usage of MuseScore is mostly to enter separate parts into scores, so I may need this less often than you, though).
I am not a fan of mouse note entry; I greatly prefer keyboard. But it can be used.
Thanks,
M.
In reply to A short-cut to move the note by Miwarre
Most of the time when I need to change staves it's because I'm editing my score, not creating it. (I create the basic draft mostly stave by stave.) Adding notes to another stave would only make things more complicated, I just want to move the notes up or down a litte.
So this is not a solution that adds any value for me. Thanks for the effort though!
In reply to The cursor keys (AKA arrow by Jojo-Schmitz
Robert Jon has it right; it may be easy to move the cursor to adjacent notes, but I can't move it anywhere in the score very easily.
In reply to Jon Robert has it right; it by eameece
There is alt-up and alt-down, but this doesn't move staff by staff - it moves the next higher/ lower nite regardless of what staff it is on. I find that command useful for moving between notes of a chord in piano music, not very useful for moving between staves. It only works if that staff you want to move to already has notes, and the order of notes from highest to lowest is not always the same as the order of staves from top to bottom, so the navigation appears to jump aroind randomly.
I agree this is something that could really use improvement - a keystroke to move up or down one staff at a time while in note entry mode. There has been some discussion of this in the past, and a couple of open issues that touch on this (but are worded somewhat differently). Feel free to try your hand at creating a feature requestion in the Issue Tracker!
In reply to There is alt-up and alt-down, by Marc Sabatella
Done. I'll try what alt-up and alt-down do for me, as often in vocal music staves have parallel rhythms.
In reply to There is alt-up and alt-down, by Marc Sabatella
Writing all the notes a staff at a time is absurd. We need to write all measures for all staffs at once. Going between staves is cumbersome in this program.
In reply to Writing all the notes a staff by eameece
I'm not sure what you mean. how would that work? The only way I can think of inputting notes is one staff at a time.
In reply to I'm not sure what you mean. by musiclover007
Obviously, any given note can only into one staff at a time, but it's a question of whether one is likely to enter just one or two notes in one staff then move down and enter the corresponding notes in another staff, or whether one would be more likely to want to enter several meadures at a time before changing staves. I tend to do more of the latter when initially entering music, but there are definitely cases where if I wish to change a given chord, I'll just be editing that one mote in every staff and would love a shortcut to move between staves. Even if working one measure at a time, I'd prefer to hit a key to move down to the next staff rather needing to hit N, then click, then hit N again.
In reply to Writing all the notes a staff by eameece
"Writing all the notes a staff at a time is absurd"
No, it is not, not at all! It may welll be not be your prefered workflow, but certainly is mine.
I usually finish one instrument and than copy it to a 2nd stave to modify it there.
This is not to sday that an easier method of switching between staves wouldn't be needed though.