Is there a way to bulk mark all instruments as visible/invisible (toggle Visible field)?
in a 8-10 part piece I often want to look at just two or so parts in the main score tab, do comparisons between them or copy notes. I currently open the Instruments dialog, manually untick the box under "Visible" on all but the two instruments that I want, close, then proceed.
When I am done, I do the reverse, selecting ticking everything I unticked. (Sometimes when I am lucky not to have to change anything, I can press Undo, and the non-visible instruments are visible again, saving time on the revert, or undo then make the change in the all parts visible score).
What I would like is a way to bulk untick (untick all) on that dialog box. A tick/untick all tickbox at the top of a list of tick-able items is extremely common.
Is there any other way to achieve the same result, or provide the feature with less programming? (e.g. Ctrl+A to select all then Space ? ... Just brainstorming, that runs out of steam quickly since it toggles, and would not be discoverable).
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Perhaps not a solution, but my workaround in such a scenario is to create a temporary part with the desired instruments.
In reply to Perhaps not a solution, but… by jeetee
Thanks. Do you mean a temporary score? The ability to show/hide instruments on the same score means that whatever I edit with only two instruments visible, will still be there when I make the rest of the instruments visible again. Your suggestion will probably not work for me, unless I misunderstood.
In reply to Thanks. Do you mean a… by Riaan van Niekerk
No, not a new score.
A part as in https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/parts
In reply to No, not a new score. A part… by jeetee
Thanks jeetee! Putting two (usually separate) instruments in the same part is not something I have used before. This does exactly what I need it to do, esp since a change in the part reflects on score. (And silly of me to think that you would mix up the concepts of Part and Score.)
In reply to Thanks jeetee! Putting two … by Riaan van Niekerk
No worries, glad we found something that worked out for you :)
Occasionally I even create an additional conductor/print part for scores on musescore.com, as the website always uses the master score for its display. See for example https://musescore.com/jeetee/cozin-all-these-things