Transposing audio playback only?
My primary practice/learning tool is a guitalele tuned in fourths to ADGCEA.
I navigate the fretboard on this as if the tuning was EADGBE, just to avoid confusion when switching to my electric guitars. For example, I will identify the A string on my guitalele as an E, the D as A etc.
Is MS capable of transposing the tuning of the playback audio without affecting the notes on the ledger lines? So for example I would like to hear an 'E' in musescore as an A, an A as D, D as G etc.
E -->A
A -->D
D -->G
G -->C
B -->E
E -->A
Some of the Mel Bay audios have this tuning feature, perhaps its something that can also be implemented in musescore? I have tried to find a way to achieve this but it seems you can't transpose without also affecting the ledger notes. obviously thats a vital feature but its not what im after in this case.
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Not sure what you mean by not affecting ledger lines, but you can definitely edit the string data. See: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/tablature#change-tuning
Do this before entering notes, or else you'll have to transpose what existed beforehand since MuseScore keeps the pitches intact. If there were notes, those can be easily transposed with [Tools →Transpose].
In reply to Yep. Edit the string data… by worldwideweary
Thanks so much for this, very helpful :)
Unfortunately you can't transpose at playback only, that would be very useful for me when playing on A/D accordion a score written for G/C.
So you have to do it in two steps...
First in staff properties change the settings to play notes higher/lower by the correct interval.
MuseScore will then change your score to keep the original pitch.
Then go to menu, transpose, and transpose by the same interval to get back the original written pitch.
Finally when you have finished to practise, don't forget to undo your change! Or take care to not save the modified score.
It would be a lot easier to adapt temporarily the pitch in the playpanel, but that feature is low priority I'm afraid...
You could also transpose the original score up a forth, Save As...a new name, export audio. then you have both scores and audio files.