Duplicating a melody line in the same staff
For more than once, I have felt the need for a feature that would allow us to duplicate a melody line (one or more measures), on top of existing material on the same staff, for example, to double a melody line, one octave higher or lower. A more complete feature would allow us to add the new material a specified interval, up or down, a third, a fourth, a sixth, an octave, whatever, instead of adding the new voice note by note.
This sounds to me like something that could be implemented by a plugin extension...and at the same time I think of it as a fundamental score-writing facility.
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Just use copy and paste, then 'transpose' by an octave or whatever
In reply to Just use copy and paste,… by Jojo-Schmitz
OK, Jojo, I was posting when you came in. Does the "copy and paste" allow appending material, rather than replacing?
In reply to OK, Jojo, I was posting when… by luizcrodrigues
I just tried it - thare is no "copy and append", just "copy and paste", which means "copy and replace".
Now that I think of it, a more fundamental feature - although a different one - would be to allow new material (already copied to the clipboard) to be pasted onto another staff/measure, by APPENDING to, not REPLACING the original material. Is there already something like that in MuseScore, that I don't know of?
In reply to Now that I think of it, a… by luizcrodrigues
Yes, it does, sort of (it'd append more measures, but needs at least one starting measure existing)
In reply to Yes, it does, sort of (it'd… by Jojo-Schmitz
Oh... that's not what I meant - appending more material on the same measure(s), not on additional measures.
In reply to Oh... that's not what I… by luizcrodrigues
that is add, not append. And no, that isn't possible, unless via voices (pasting into an empty voice)
In reply to Oh... that's not what I… by luizcrodrigues
Tools/Voice->Exchange Voices;
Then copy (use Selection Filter) and Paste?
In reply to Tools/Voice->Exchange Voices… by Shoichi
No, it didn't work! When I try to copy new material on voice 2, for example, whatever was on voice 1 in the same measure, simply disappears! Only voice 2 material persists. So, it is NOT a "copy and add" (to comply with Jojo), but "copy and replace" (I'm talking about Ctl.C - Ctl.V).
In reply to No, it didn't work! When I… by luizcrodrigues
In other words, pasting into an empty voice gets rid of existing material on non-empty voice. At least it did happen to me.
In reply to In other words, pasting into… by luizcrodrigues
I just tried a few times, in different situations. Pasting allways erases - never preserves - existing material.
In reply to I just tried a few times, in… by luizcrodrigues
Well, no, I'm using it all the time to duplicate notes in another voice (copy, swap voice 1-2, paste)
In reply to Well, no, I'm using it all… by Jojo-Schmitz
OK! Now it worked. So, the sequence is: copy - swap - paste. I was doing swap - copy - paste. My idea was to swap to voice 2, then copy voice 2 and then paste voice 2. What I have to do is: copy voice 1 - swap EXISTING to voice 2 - paste voice 1. That way, it worked all right. Thank you again.
In reply to No, it didn't work! When I… by luizcrodrigues
You have to remove the check from voice 1 in the selection filter to only copy items that are not in voice 1. (voice 3&4 don't matter if there is nothing there). With voice 1 unchecked, copy then, in any order, paste and recheck voice 1 so your selections will work on voice 1 again.