A few "timely" ideas
1) I'd display time (seconds, with two decimal places) calculated dynamically based on the official tempo one sets for the piece (not necessarily on playback chronometry).
2) I'd put some small graphic to give visual feedback as to how far along the score one is, and make this graphic click-able and drag-able so one can easily go to, say, 1/3 of the way from the start, or 3/4 to the end, --so one doesn't have to click and drag hundreds of times to get to some place. Maybe it is there already and I don't know it; I'm new to to Muse...
3) Bookmarks; --enough said.
4) Play slower/faster --like a per-cent time-zoom (WITHOUT changing the official tempo of the piece)
5) More comprehensive tempo gadget. Maybe I should put this in the Help forum, but anyways, I selected part of the score to put a tempo, and I ended up with a multitude of tempo gadgets on top of each other. Thanks for Ctrl-Z.
6) Ability to format score for linear time. This would be so nice, to be able to see how the notes in different parts align. That's the entire reason I'm writing out the Jamiroquai song Time Won't Wait: I'm a bass player, and I want to be able to sing it an play it at the same time, but both the voice AND the bass line are rythmically complex, so I'd love to be able to see the exact alignments and syncopations.
7) This is not time-related, but I'd really like to be able to set up a space for lyrics under a staff. Presently I'm entering lyrics using System Text, whose purpose I do not know and has two problems: It doesn't copy when I copy a section of the score and paste it elsewhere, such as the chorus. The other problem is that it gets in the way of lines and ornamentals.
8) This probably in it already, and I haven't found it: A text space for license, copyrights, attributions, remix notes, etc.
Comments
1, 2, 4 : check the play panel (Display > Play Panel)
3 : They are called rehearsal mark. You can use Ctrl + F to jump to a given one.
7: If you want lyrics, use lyrics. Ctrl + L and read the handbook for lyrics.
8: In the footer or header. See Style > footer, header. Or in the metadata of the file in File > Score properties...
In reply to 1, 2, 4 : check the play… by [DELETED] 5
LOL
Thanks!
5) Not sure what you were expecting, but the way to use tempo marks is to attach them to a single note/rest, not to a range. When you select a range and then double-click something in the palette, it applies that thing to every note/rest in the selection. If you don't want that, don't select a range.
6) is not standard notation, so MuseScore doesn't do it automatically, but you can force it by entering a bunch of invisible rests in another voice or on another staff. Say, sixteenth rests, if that's the shortest note vaue in the song.
8) or in a text frame, or a vertical frame
In reply to 5) Not sure what you were… by Marc Sabatella
Actually, the formatting is already pretty time-linear. I think the software begins to delinearize the score as the score gets visually compressed, but when stretched it gets pretty time-linear. I'm happy with that.
In reply to Actually, the formatting is… by danw58
It's "proportional" but not "linear", and this remains true no matter how compressed things are. That is, a quarter note takes more space than an eighth but not twice as much; a half note takes more space than a quarter but not twice as much, etc. This is all in accordance to standard practice. But the trick I mentioned does result in truly linear spacing - if your measure is full of invisible sixteenth rests, then a quarter really will be exactly twice an eighth, etc.
In reply to It's "proportional" but not … by Marc Sabatella
Ah, I got you now.
I'll probably use this trick; thanks!