As Capella files do not contain information about which staves belong to which instrument, MuseScore has to try to deduce this. It does so by combining all successive staves with the same MIDI instrument number. This obviously works well for a piano score, but not for a SATB score (in both cases all voices use the same MIDI instrument number).
It would be trivial to assign a different instrument to each staff, but that does not work well for a piano score, although it does for a SATB score.
Slightly more complicated with probably slightly better results would be to assign a different instrument to all successive staves with the same MIDI instrument number and with a brace connecting the staves.
Yes, of course, but:
- that should also apply to the other multi-staff instruments defined by MIDI (at least all pianos and organs, maybe more)
- would fail for e.g. a piano duo (probably not a very common case)
Well, seems to be very difficult to please them all, but doing t for the most common case(s) sounds reasonable to me?
Fort the rest your 2nd solution (assign a different instrument to all successive staves with the same MIDI instrument number and with a brace connecting the staves) should be good enough, I think.
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As Capella files do not contain information about which staves belong to which instrument, MuseScore has to try to deduce this. It does so by combining all successive staves with the same MIDI instrument number. This obviously works well for a piano score, but not for a SATB score (in both cases all voices use the same MIDI instrument number).
It would be trivial to assign a different instrument to each staff, but that does not work well for a piano score, although it does for a SATB score.
Slightly more complicated with probably slightly better results would be to assign a different instrument to all successive staves with the same MIDI instrument number and with a brace connecting the staves.
Can't those MIDI instrument numbers get used to detect a Piano and treat that special?
Yes, of course, but:
- that should also apply to the other multi-staff instruments defined by MIDI (at least all pianos and organs, maybe more)
- would fail for e.g. a piano duo (probably not a very common case)
Well, seems to be very difficult to please them all, but doing t for the most common case(s) sounds reasonable to me?
Fort the rest your 2nd solution (assign a different instrument to all successive staves with the same MIDI instrument number and with a brace connecting the staves) should be good enough, I think.
Fixed in 366077edd8
Fixed in ab5683079d
Fixed in 5d71b5e796
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.