Turn off lead sheet style with chord symbols harmony in the Mixer?
I wrote something and to help me I put in some chord symbols in some bars. At one point these were associated with a piano instrument. If I listen to the output and mute the piano in the mixer I can hear everything else up to the point where the player sees a chord symbol, whereupon a piano reappears.
Is there a way to toggle or suppress this? If there is, I need help as I've not found how to do it yet, otherwise I'd request this as a feature.
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See https://musescore.org/en/faq#faq-308797
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks. Seems slightly involved - would be good to have a faster toggle, but I suppose a shortcut (I've not got into those yet) could work.
There was another problem - but I fixed that and understood that now - mea culpa!
In reply to Thanks. Seems slightly… by dave2020X
There is also a channel in the mixer in the mixer dedicated to the chord symbol.
Using it allows you to change the instrument, or its volume, or just mute it.
I have found that setting the chord channel to acoustic bass at a rather low volume allows to hear the chords in the least disturbing way (subjective personal choice)
In reply to There is also a channel in… by frfancha
Which is one ot the options the handbook page pointed to by that FAQ is offering ;-)
In reply to Thanks. Seems slightly… by dave2020X
I don't see how three clicks counts as "slightly involved"? Click chord symbol, click Play button, click Set as style.
In reply to I don't see how three clicks… by Marc Sabatella
You are right about that - I hadn't read down to part 4 of the relevant manual section - though the snag with that (for some people) is that it leaves the "play" feature off for all selected chord symbols until reset. It's then not obvious which chords will actually produce audible output. As a short quick fix it's fine - maybe there should be a visual clue as to which of the chord symbols are actually going to sound.
I may adopt that method, though a global toggle might be easier to manage.
In reply to You are right about that - I… by dave2020X
As you say, different people have different needs, and even a single person has different needs at different times. That's why we do provide so many controls here: over a single chord, over all chords for a single mixer channel, over all chords in the current score, over all older scores, and over all new scores. Simply use the control that best meets more needs. I'm not really the need for yet more controls here, it's already quite the explosion of options!
As for a visual clue as to which chords will sound, that's already there - the Play checkbox in the Inspector. Same as for notes, same as for dynamics, same as for articulations, same as for ornaments, etc.
In reply to As you say, different people… by Marc Sabatella
Until recently I only used the Inspector occasionally. I don't know about many other users, but my guess is that a fair number won't go there unless they really feel a need to. Knowing that there's a checkbox in a tool which many might not even think of using is not quite the same as having some other visual cue which would be more obvious on the score or the Mixer.
In reply to Until recently I only used… by dave2020X
So, use the Mixer, that's your right if it happens to be more convenient for you personally. But for the record, I will bet far more users know about and use the Inspector than the Mixer. After all, the Inspector is used for tons and tons of things, but the Mixer is only used for playback controls. And.the Inspector is right there when you first start MuseScore; the Mixer you only find out about later if you read the Handbook or start exploring beyond the defaults.
But I don't see the value in creating yet more confusion by adding yet more controls in addition to the many already present.
In reply to Until recently I only used… by dave2020X
That's why the handbook offers several methods, one of which indeed involves the Mixer. Still the Inspector method is the easiest, by far, the Mixer one the most difficult (you need to find the harmony channel first), the Format > Style > Chord symbols one sits in between
In reply to That's why the handbook… by Jojo-Schmitz
To the extent that some future MuseScore 4.x release might include a "sequencer" mode that includes some ability to mute and solo tracks directly from the score view, now that is a place I can totally see a toggle button, basically just a more visible way of accessing the mixer channel control.