New version of Musescore 3 and Key Signatures
According the handbook on entering key signatures, https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/key-signatures#add-key-sig-to-staves, when you click on a single staff in a score and double click on a key signature, the signature will apply to all staves. Now it is only applying to one stave. The only way I have found to apply to all is to select all and then click on the key signature. Is this the new desired outcome?
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Is your ctrl button pressed? Pressing ctrl while applying a key signature applies it to only one staff. Selecting a staff and double clicking a key signature applies it to all staves and has as long as I can remember.
In reply to Is your ctrl button pressed?… by mike320
No. I'm not pushing the ctrl or command button (I'm on a Mac). Double clicking on a key signature has also always applied to all staves for as long as I remember too (I've been using Musescore since version 1).
In reply to No. I'm not pushing the… by aedsb
I hate to tell you to revert to factory settings, but I don't know of another way to reset the action. You can try adding -R to your run (or execute) command to revert to factory settings and keep your custom shortcuts and palettes if you have any.
Also I didn't ask if you were pressing cmd but rather is it pressed for some reason like the spring under the key is going bad or your cat has her paw on it. Stranger things have happened.
Is it possible you are getting confused by the transposition, and it really is applying to all staves? Or maybe you are using the word "staves" when you really mean "systems"? In order to understand and assist better, we would need you to attach the score and describe more precisely what you are trying to do and how you are trying to do it.
In reply to Is it possible you are… by Marc Sabatella
Noticed that signatures apply only to one staff when the only thing selected is a rest in one particular staff. If a measure is selected via range selection, it applies to the entire system's instruments and onward. This can be annoying depending on the user's workflow, and maybe this is what the OPer is experiencing?
In reply to Noticed that signatures… by worldwideweary
This is a change I never noticed before. I just double checked 2.3.2 and selecting a rest applies the key signature to all instruments.
In reply to Noticed that signatures… by worldwideweary
Could be. This is a new feature I think is of questionable value, or should be harder to invoke: the ability to create mid-measure key changes. Applying the change to a single selected note or reset does this, and it does indeed make it local to that staff as well.
In reply to Could be. This is a new… by Marc Sabatella
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I seem to remember once seeing a mid measure key change. As unorthodox and rare as those are, I think I would prefer requiring the version 2 workaround to prevent problems like this.
In reply to I guess I shouldn't be… by mike320
Or just require Ctrl, since it's going to be added locally anyhow.
In reply to Or just require Ctrl, since… by Marc Sabatella
Agreed.
I do remember a score or 2 where I saw this and wished I could do it for about a second and a half but I made the key change more conventional, which I don't regret.
In reply to Agreed. by mike320
It's very open to mistakes.
As you mentioned, it needs to be corrected by combining it with another modifier key on the keyboard.
In reply to It's very open to mistakes… by Ziya Mete Demircan
...or else the handbook choice: "Select a note and double-click a key signature in a palette." should be deleted from:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/key-signatures#add-key-sig-to-staves
and placed here;
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/key-signatures#add-key-sig-to-one-s…
In reply to Noticed that signatures… by worldwideweary
I can confirm that this is what is occurring. I'm using a string quartet score and if I select the rest of a measure (which is what I have done for years), then only that staff will change to the new key signature. If I select a measure, then the key signature will be applied to all staves.