Transposing Playback
I often find it aggravating that I cannot tweek the playback up or down a semi-tone or two. I've read some of the solutions proposed to others who bring this point up. They seem rather complicated for the simple objective at hand.
I play a 12-string guitar; it is usually tuned down one semi-tone (to reduce the pressure on the neck due to the additional 6 strings.) I see the capo option which would work nicely if I had it tuned the guitar UP a semi-tone. But there's no option for a minus one fret.
Sometimes I make a MIDI file and play it through my keyboard; then I just use the transpose button on the keyboard. But that's just another awkward work-around too.
I think a "Transpose Playback" option would be nice.
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If I understand correctly, this is simple - right click the staff, Staff Properties, set the transposition. Better, really, to actually change the tuning, but I guess maybe that's the complicated solution you refer to?
In reply to If I understand correctly,… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you! That worked. I was a little surprised the way it worked though: it transposed my entire piece from C to Db, but when I played it, it sounded the same. Then I transposed the score back to C and it looked like what I wanted to see and played like I wanted it to sound.
Way easier than retuning my guitar.
I'm grateful that you folks spend the time to guide us into some of these "undiscovered" corners of MuseScore.
In reply to Thank you! That worked. I… by tonyb
FYI, the reason it works the way it does is that this feature is meant more for transposing instruments like trumpets, horns, clarinets, and saxophones, and the idea is you always want the music to sound the same but you want to see it transposed as necessary for those instruments. So the transposition controls keep the sound the same but change the written notation.
Perhaps making a 12 string guitar in a custom instruments.xml file is called for. You could then change the instrument in staff properties then use tools->Transpose to transpose the entire score down a minor second. After the initial setup, it makes what you want two simple steps.
In reply to Perhaps making a 12 string… by mike320
Thank you. Sounds like a good approach.