Chord sampling
Could you make an option to switch the note sampler to chord sampling? I have no I dea if that would be easy or not, but it should make making chords a ton easier on larger scale music.
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What do you mean by a "note sampler"?
I'm not aware of anything called by that name in 1.2???
In reply to What do you mean by a "note by ChurchOrganist
Speculate - a classy word for guess.
I think he means that in addition to MIDI keyboard notes being interpreted for input to Musescore it would be an advantage to have chords recognized for input.
In reply to I Shouldn't Speculate by Zoots
You mean, like automatically add chord symbols (Cmi7, etc) based on some sort of algorithm that attempts to figure out when it would make sense to add a chord symbol and to guess its name from the notes that are played in that measure? Except in the very simplest of cases - music consisting of nothing but whole note triads, basically - there is pretty much no way this could really work well enough to be worth the effort.
In reply to You mean, like automatically by Marc Sabatella
Maybe he just means being able to use a (musical) keyboard to input chords? That is, instead of typing Ctrl-K and "Cmaj7", you'd type Ctrl-K and then play a Cmaj7 chord (root position, closed voicing).
Or maybe he doesn't mean that. Still, it'd be kinda cool, even if it's not the most pressing need on the planet. And relatively easy to do.. (I guess you'd probably set up some sort of XML file that would translate the MIDI notes into chords, similar to the XML file that does that for typed chords. And, like that other chord definition file, it wouldn't be practical to define every single chord--just the 99% most common ones.)
- Jeff
In reply to Maybe he just means being by Jeff Jetton
Actually, that info is already in the existing XML files. The definition of each chord ID contains info on what notes make up the chord. So if someone were to try to implement this, no additional XML files should be needed.
In reply to Actually, that info is by Marc Sabatella
Ah! Even better! :-)
I should've known... I'm assuming that's how it's able to transpose chord symbols along with the notes?
- Jeff
In reply to Ah! Even better! :-) I by Jeff Jetton
No, transposing chord symbols wouldn't require any special knowledge of the construction of the chord. All it has to do is recognize the note names in the chord symbol itself. That is, to transpose C7b9, you don't have to know what notes make up C7b9; you just have to transpose the C. As far as I know, the info on what notes are in the chord isn't actually used for anything. There is separate but similar info in the file that is used for MusicXML export.
The real problem with any auto-identification scheme is that any given combination of notes can often be notated any of several different ways. For example CEGA might be C6 or Ami7/C. And of course, most combinations of notes will have no standard name at all. So I have to imagine that chord entry using that sort of scheme would be extemely frustrating and error prone for anything beyond basic triads - and in the case of basic trialds, surely typing is faster than playing.
In reply to No, transposing chord symbols by Marc Sabatella
hi,
See my very first comment more the 2 years ago: http://musescore.org/en/node/4276.
In my opinion this worked extremely well in Musicator, but I have no idea how difficult it would be to implement it.
regards
ph