Fixing OCR mistake: missing note (imported as a pause at the end of the bar)
Hello!
I've just found MuseScore as a free alternative to Noteworthy Composer I've also tried, and I'm trying to digitise a script I have. OCR does a pretty good job, but there are some mistakes and I'm trying to fix them in MuseScore.
I have this almost ready script line:
The OCR software missed one quarter note near the highlighted blue one, and for the bar measure to match, MuseScore has apparently added a quarter pause at the end of the bar. I want to fix it now: I need another quarter note before the blue one and I don't need the pause. Is it possible to do this in MuseScore?
I've tried to insert a note before the blue one (hoping the pause will automatically be removed and it would be OK), but the note input mode seems to know only to overwrite already existing notes.
I've tried to change the pause to a note, but I don't know how to move that note to the right position after that.
I've tried to shorten the blue note to an eighth, then change the newly appeared pause to a note and then change the duration of the first note back to a quarter note (hoping that the pause at the end of the bar would be automatically recalculated to eighth and removed after I lengthen the second eighth note), but the next eighth gets removed instead.
Thanks!
Janis
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Comments
Yes, note input mode works as overwrite. So you could simply retype the measure; that takes only a few seconds when there are just a few notes involved as in this case.
But in general, to solve problems like this, the direct way is cut & paste. You want to move those four beats later. So you cut them from their current location and paste them to the new. Click the first note you want moved, shift click the last (this is the standard way to select a range of things in just about any program), ctrl-X (standard shortcut for cut), click the beat position you want to move them to, ctrl-V (paste).
In reply to Yes, note input mode works as by Marc Sabatella
Oh, thanks, the cut-paste method worked! Retyping is very slow for me. I didn't type those notes in the first place, but imported them from an XML.
In reply to Oh, thanks, the cut-paste by janis.elmeris
It might be slow until you kearn how it works, but it's literally just a few seconds to actually type:
5 f ctrl+3 e f e 5 d c
Then go back and add the slur.