Add notes (in bass clef?) when adding a chord name
When adding a chord name, to have an option for the actual notes to be placed in the score (say, in a Bass Clef). This could even be further developed for jazz and rock musicians with the ability to split chords or use rhythm templates for the chord.
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the file chords.xml already contains most of the voicings of the various chords (a few are missing and a few are wrong though), but that information isn't used anywhere yet.
See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/share/styles/chords…
But yes, I'd second this request. Would be great if these voicings could get exposed to the plugin framework
A plugin definitely seems like the right way to do this. It's a quite complex subject - after all,. particular for jazz, a "naive" voicing of the chord would be worse than nothing, and of course, there would also need to be a way to specify the rhythm to be used. So it's really something best left out of the core program.
I'm sure such a thing could be written from scratch in javascript if all the relevant info were available to the plugin framework. But realistically, I also wonder if it makes sense to reinvent this wheel when there exist other programs that already know how to do this - eg, Impro-Visor. A plugin that passed the info to Impro-Visor, then read in the results and inserted them into a new staff of the current score would be fantastic. There is already a much more limited plugin for Impro-Visor, but it can't take the generated results and incorporate them into your score.
In reply to A plugin definitely seems by Marc Sabatella
Impro-Visor should be able to export to MusicXML (I implemented the musicxml export long time ago, not sure if it's maintained) and you can then just copy paste the result. I don't think this use case is cmmon enough to be in the core.