Problem entering second voice
Greetings.
I'm running MuseScore 1.2 (recently upgraded from 1.1) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8). I have read the documentation on Voices and have used them successfully in the past. I am using the "Jazz Lead Sheet" template (but this problem exists independent of the template used).
Short description: I can't seem to get MuseScore to allow me to select a second voice for note entry.
I have a bar with note data in voice 1. I want to enter note data in voice 3 (as in Marc's advanced lead sheet tutorial) for rhythmic cues.
I select the first note in the bar, press N, then click on (3) in the voice palette. The number (3) is highlighted and darkened (presumably indicating that it's been selected), but the cursor does not turn yellow (stays blue). Once I attempt to select a note value, (3) becomes deselected in the palette. If I attempt to enter note data (even if I reselect voice 3), it overwrites the voice 1 content.
It is possible for me to swap voices (Voice 1->Voice 2), but then all note entry is restricted to Voice 2.
If I open a file which has 2 voices, select a note in voice 1, and go into note entry mode, it will not allow me to switch to another voice to enter data.
Hope you can help. I prepared the other document on another machine running this version and same OS and had no problem.
Comments
It sounds to me as if you are in the wrong mode when you select the voice. Make sure that the cursor changes to a "note" before you select the voice.
In reply to It sounds to me as if you are by xavierjazz
I select the note/rest at the beginning of the bar, press "N", and I get a blue cursor preceding the note/rest. Then I select the voice, but the cursor doesn't change colors, and any note data entered overwrites voice 1.
If it is just this one score where the method to enter note to a voice 3 fails, i suspect that this score is corrupted somehow
In reply to If it is just this one score by Jojo-Schmitz
I can reproduce it in a new document, and independent of the template used.
Invert the steps
1 selects the voice;
2 select "N".
The cursor changes to yellow (or green or red)?
Maybe it's silly but "tentar non nuoce"
In reply to Make an experiment by Shoichi
If I select the voice first, then press N, it switches back to Voice 1.
Attached: a simple example. Selected first quarter note, pressed "N", selected voice 3 (note, it's highlighted). Cursor remains blue.
In reply to If I select the voice first, by jazz_trpt
Save with a name without an asterisk...
In reply to Make another experiment by Shoichi
It hadn't been saved yet.
In reply to Not saved by jazz_trpt
and that is what the asterisk means ;-)
In reply to and that is what the asterisk by Jojo-Schmitz
(and the problem persists after it has been saved, as you might expect.)
In reply to If I select the voice first, by jazz_trpt
Order matters
In reply to Order mattersSelect a note by [DELETED] 5
On step 3, the cursor does not change color.
On step 4, the voice selected in the palette changes back to Voice 1.
In reply to If I select the voice first, by jazz_trpt
Select a note;
select N;
moved, with the arrow keys, on another note;
select another voice
see if change the cursor color.
Attach the file mscz
In reply to post scriptum by Shoichi
The cursor does not change color when I select a different voice in the palette.
In reply to The cursor does not change by jazz_trpt
Missing a break (2 voice)?
Downloaded Version 1.1 to see if problem occurs there, and it does not. I am able to successfully open the Untitled sample document and enter voices other than Voice 1.
In reply to Downloaded Version 1.1 to see by jazz_trpt
What's the problem? Check this video http://www.screenr.com/zoZ7
In reply to Downloaded Version 1.1 to see by jazz_trpt
Running 1.1 without installing it appears to have clobbered my plugins for 1.2 (amongst other things), which appears to have made the problem go away for a new document. I'll reinstall the plugins one by one and see if the problem recurs.
In reply to Running 1.1 without by jazz_trpt
Now seems to be working fine with those plugins reinstalled.
Weird.
Case closed, I guess.