First Time Only/Second Time Only (Repeats and Jumps)
Sometimes in a piece I want to have a repeated section, but add in a new voice for the second time, or remove one after the first. I've seen this in many pieces I have played, however, I can't seem to find an option for it on MuseScore, and no I am not talking about Voltas. And yes I would like this to be included in playback if possible.
Can anyone help?
(example included for hand claps)
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Your image shows 2 percussion staves for handclaps with the text: HANDCLAPS (second time only).
Can you not simply enter it exactly as it shows in your image?
Also, playback of the handclaps only during the repeat is not currently possible.
Regards.
In reply to Your image shows 2… by Jm6stringer
I know but I'm wondering If second time only playback is possible
In reply to I know but I'm wondering If… by Max Gray
Currently not.
If I understand what you are saying, this is something I have been wondering about for some time now. (and I hope I'm not hijacking your request) Today I began re-scoring a jazz combo piece I wrote in '86, in which the reeds hold a note when we jump back for the DS. In the original score, I simply wrote "play second time only", and that was enough. Now I would like to have that playback in Musescore.
Similarly, in the same score, the middle eight is played twice. The reeds play a rhythmic figure on the first time through, and the trumpets add a melody line on the repeat of the same set of measures. It is easy enough to simply write the eight measure repeated as sixteen, but frankly, that's not the way it's supposed to look for the players.
I'm sure there are many others who have encountered this before. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Tom
In reply to If I understand what you are… by toffle
"Currently not."
You can notate it correctly and put in staff text indications for your players, but playback of such a thing is currently not supported by the internal file format.
If someone can find the time to put in the programming effort, I'm quite positive that an implementation of such a feature would be welcomed into the development version.
In reply to "Currently not."… by jeetee
What language is musescore written in and how can I get the source code; I am working on Debian based Linux.
In reply to What language is musescore… by dieselack1
See: https://musescore.org/en/development
HTH
In reply to See: https://musescore.org… by Shoichi
I just downloaded and looked at the source code and it seems to be in c++ (as the files are *.cpp and *.h)
In reply to What language is musescore… by dieselack1
C++
If you're looking into this specific issue; my idea would be to move the repeatlist property of Volta onto a generic Element, Then adjust rendermidi to honor the contents of that setting (thus devise a way for a given Element to know at which playthrough it is currently being rendered).
In reply to C++ If you're looking into… by jeetee
Onfortunately that was, is and will be a feature request: And Obviously you were not the first user requesting it..
Look:
https://musescore.org/en/search/content?keys=2nd+time+only
'Engraving first, playback last' is the policy of Musescore.
But I love Musescore for the 20000 things the App is working like expected.
In reply to Onfortunately that was, is… by olivo
And the technical approach as I mentioned above has been discussed in developer meetups. All that is needed is someone (apparently, not yet me) with the available time and knowledge to do the actual coding and turn it into a pull request.
The development team is most welcoming to such a PR.
Well, and here I was just about to request this very thing (as a Feature Request). It can be very handy in jazz band arrangements, such as when a repeated section starts with a climactic chord or holdover from the previous section, or (as discussed) when something is added on the repeat for "second time only."
And of course, as noted, it's easy enough to enter as text for the printed version; it'd just be very helpful to have it available on the MIDI playback.