Selecting upper/lower notes in a selection of chords
Like what I stated in the subject, I think it would be helpful if there is a feature that filters only uppermost or lowermost notes in a range of chords. The current workaround for this is to explode the selection, but this is a hassle considering I have to copy the selection into a new score with enough staves, then make modifications to the desired voice, then implode the results and paste it back into my original file.
I remember that this feature is present in Sibelius and I hope this one is implemented in future versions of MuseScore.
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Can you explain the real world use case for this? That would help in understanding how to design a feature that solve the problem better than explode already does. BTW, no need to use a new score with explode, you can just add temporary staves as needed.
In reply to Can you explain the real… by Marc Sabatella
A use case would be taking a chordal passage and turning it into two voices. Sometimes I have long chordal passages because I entered pitches using a MIDI keyboard, but the passages should really be two voices in one instrument. Without a feature to select the bottom or top note, it gets unwieldy creating a new staff, exploding, switching voice 1 to 2, pasting back, and deleting the temporary staff. In Sibelius, for example, the user can select a passage and choose Select > Bottom or single notes, and cut directly from there. Plus, exploding acts on the staff immediately below, whereas in Sibelius users can choose the destination staff.
In reply to A use case would be taking a… by quickcarrot
There is a plugin "prune stack" that does something like this, or could perhaps be adapted to meet that need better. Even if you could select the notes individually, you couldn't paste them - discontinuous selections can be pasted. So it wouldn't actually help here. Instead, a special version of explode that simply did the job in place could be more useful.
Meanwhile, though, I'm not sure what you mean about switching voices and pasting, seems what you want is a simple matter of explode then immediately implode, no? You could also copy the passage, paste to a scratch score, do the explode/implode there, then copy/paste back, if you don't feel like inserting and deleting staves every time you wish to do this - just keep the scratch staff open for this sort of thing.