Microtones in Key Signatures
I had expressed my wish for this before, but maybe if I insist ...
Well, my point is: sometimes we use the occasional microtonal accidental for the odd measure or two, but most often we tend to modulate to a wholely different mode/key, so we need the ability to incorporate microtonal accidentals in a key signature. Even better, it is very useful for us to be able to incorporate just any form of accidental in any given key signature; so, for example, one very often used mode uses B natural, E half-flat and A flat.
On the other hand, this would also entail the possibilty of putting a microtonal accidental within parenthises; so, it might be a good idea to simply put a pair of parentises as a separate option to be added to any accidenat, instead of the current content of the accidental palette.
Another dream of mine, is "winged" repeats; they are that much easier to spot and follow. I suppose the brackets used for staves could just be recycled for that purpose...
But thanks for all the efforts, and congratulations for the release of 0.9.5.
Hosam Adeeb Nashed
Comments
I was contemplating the possibility of writing a plugin that would apply a microtonal scheme on a set of selected measure. The idea is to save time instead of using the Tuning plugin for each note with a half-flat.
I suppose I would be using qtscript for that, but where can I get insight into the programme's data structures?
Thanks.
Hosam Adeeb Nashed
In reply to Still re Microtones by HosAdeeb
Unfortunately, you don't have access to selection in the plugin framework (yet?)
The only documentation for plugin is here + the code of the already existing plugin.
I too would like to be able to write microtonal / maqam music.
I have just tried the microtune plugin on my Mac (OSX 10.6.4)
(Micro-interval tuning)
http://musescore.org/en/project/microtune
I can notate in microtones, but the MIDI playback only does equal temperament semi-tones.
Regards,
In reply to Half flats in MuseScore by fgenolini
You have to add the accidentals to the music and then go to Plugins > Microtonal tunings which modifies the pitch for all the notes with accidentals. Now these notes will playback as you defined them in the Micro-tonal tunings dialog.