Stemless notes & half/quarter barlines?
Is it possible to create something like this in musescore?
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Is it possible to create something like this in musescore?
http://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/uploads/FileUpload/8a/bf6f72dba2d41b…
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Stemless notes are easy enough. To make them *all* stemless, as it seems you may want, you can right click a staff and select Staff Properties then click the Stemless option. Or you can use Note Properties to make individual notes or groups of selected notes stemless.
You'll probably have to fake the barlines using ordinary lines, at least until 2.0 comes out. Unless someone else knows some better tricks.
The best way of producing unmetrical music is to use a pre-release version of MuseScore 2 available from the very bottom of the downloads page.
The new features such as join and split measure (bar) and the ability to define a staff which does not display a time signature make it far superior to 1.3 for this.
Add to this that the kinds of barlines required for plainsong are also available in 2.0 then the argument for using a pre-release version strengthens.
I have been using pre-release versions of 2.0 for over a year now to produce the weekly Gradual for the church where I am DOM without problems. It must be borne in mind, however, that you cannot publish your work on musescore.com, you may find that things suddenly stop working, or you may experience random crashes, so it is important to make sure that you are extra-vigilant about backing up work, and to keep a copy of the version of the program with which you created your score.
HTH
Michael
In reply to The best way of producing by ChurchOrganist
Thanks for the tips guys.
I can't find the download for 2.0 ... would you mind sharing a direct link?
In reply to Thanks for the tips guys. I by ryand88
http://musescore.org/en/download, scroll down quite a bit
In reply to http://musescore.org/en/downl by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks, that's the page I was looking at ... just not sure where to download from? Sorry, I am very naive about these kinds of things ... should it be one of the "nightly" files? I can't find anything that is clearly labelled as 2.0
In reply to Thanks, that's the page I was by ryand88
'Nightly version', 'nightly build', 'prerelease' - all refer to the version 2.0 currently in development, the one you were looking for: http://musescore.org/en/download
The nightly can co-exist on the same machine with Musescore 1.3; and please follow Church Organist's advice above.
Regards...
In reply to Thanks, that's the page I was by ryand88
That's because "2.0" isn't a real release yet - it's just the number we all assume will be used for the next major release when it happens. But yes, "nightly" builds are what you want. Just be aware these are very much experimental prereleases. They may work well enough or might crash, etc.