How do I create a part without any sounds attached to it?
So I've been trying to compose/arrange some pieces using MuseScore, and as a percussionist, I find myself often wanting to use lots of auxiliary percussion that MuseScore often doesn’t support (rainstick, ratchet, etc.). I know exactly what I want to notate, but as MuseScore doesn’t have any implemented instrument for some of these auxiliary perc. instruments, I don’t really have a good way to do so. What I really want, is just a one line (or even five, I really don’t care) percussion clef staff that plays absolutely nothing in playback. I’ve been getting around this mostly by muting a snare drum part, which works fine for the most part, but when I go to export it, you hear the obnoxious snare loud and clear.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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In French MuseScore, if you mute the stave in the Mixer, or in the Inspector, you use the case "lecture" in french, for all the notes.
What do you mean by :export"? Do you mean MIDI or audio, perhaps? Audio should honor the Mixer settings, include mute, but I'm not sure MIDI has such a concept in itself, so I could imagine that might not work as well; you might need to mute it again in whatever program you are using to play the MIDI file.
In reply to What do you mean by :export"? by Marc Sabatella
Oh awesome! I didn't know that. Thanks!
In reply to Oh awesome! I didn't know by dylanpetersen
What might work for MIDI export is to select the notes and use the inspector to set their velocity to 0?
In reply to What might work for MIDI by jeetee
Or turn of their Play property
In reply to Or turn of their Play by Jojo-Schmitz
That might be the easier option.
I'm wondering if it would give different output though. The note being present, but no velocity; or the note simply not appearing in the output?