How do I change what an expression does?

• Dec 14, 2018 - 02:03

I put "staccato" as an expression, but the notes aren't playing short

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• Dec 14, 2018 - 02:09

If you mean you've written staccato as a text, at this point MuseScore does not playback such. You would have to put in staccato dots over what you want played that way. If you did, then send in the score so someone could see what happened.

Often what is done is to write staccato under the staff and put in the dots, and hide them with the inpsector (visible) or "v" on the keyboard.

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• Dec 14, 2018 - 04:32

If you really, really don't want dots, what I usually do is select a note, right click, piano roll editor, note length - it's on the far right side, usually set to 1000 - set that to 500, hit enter, close piano roll editor, save. Piano roll in 2.3.2 is very buggy, don't try to do more than one at a time, you will crash.

And then, because I'm not doing that for every single note, I copy paste. So if it's a long line of 16ths, copy paste, I have two sixteenths. Copy paste, now I have four. Then I'll put the notes where they should be and keep going.

MS3, you can select a whole bunch of notes, go to the piano roll, then click in the middle of the yellow lines at the bottom until they're all half the length they were. I still usually copy paste on that, but it's much better.

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• Dec 14, 2018 - 19:46

It should also be noted that even regular staccato dots don't necessarily play back correctly in scores imported from MusicXML or other sources, depending on the format and the version of MuseScore. For this reason and others, I often prefer to copy and paste content from imported scores into fresh ones, when I'm forced to deal with import from other programs.

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