Automate Formatting for Tablature
I have been using Musescore for about 18 months or so now, I love the things it can do for me, being a late comer to the playing of music (for physical therapy I am learning guitar, slowly and badly but hey, it is music to me and my dogs.) I almost exclusively use it to import midi files, I select the part from the midi file I want to convert to music I can play on a guitar and format it to have both standard notation and tablature in linked staves. I find I go through the same general steps every time after I select the melody line from the raw midi.
First I change instrument to guitar
2nd I add linked staff
3rd I changed linked staff to tablature common
4th I change octave to fit my instrument (move to tenor clef)
5th I make the file name the title for the piece
6th I change the staff properties for the guitar tab to a clearer font and resize (Bonneuil-Gaultier 16pt)
Anyhow, I think I have made the point that I do a Lot of repetitious steps. My question is, can the things I do every time be automated and applied to a score after I have imported a midi file.
Great Program whether it can do what I am hoping to do or not! I have learned so much about how music works just from digging in and playing with this program.
Thanks,
Michael
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Not really. Another way would be to create a new score (with the default (or a custom) template guitar+tab), open the midi file, select all via "ctrl+a" or select all from a particular staff via "ctrl+shift+end" (after selecting the first note) and copy and paste it.
In reply to Not really. Another way… by kuwitt
That helped with the multi screen format, don't have to open all the separate config windows, but the key, time signature, tempo and repeats do not copy that way... but it is a step in the right direction Thanks!