Change Instrument Palette Text does not recognise current instrument leading to incorrect transpositions
If you add a further trasposition on a trasposing instrument staff you experience a wrong (add up) of the trasposition interval on the latter instrument.
From this situation (Clarinet A [up a minor third]+ Piano):
You may change the upper staff Transposing Instrument into Clarinet Bb [up a major second] using the Change instrument tool from the Text palette, but you get this. This is obviously wrong:
say, the latter trasposition is somehow a sum of both ones [up a minor third]+[up a major second]
Workaround:
You can reset to the correct one by setting again the main key signature (here is G major) from bar 4 on:
Comments
I can confirm this.
Regression vs. what previous version of MuseScore?
No regression. 't was a mistake of mine.
There's a workaround though ;-)
The problem only seems to occur if I use the Change Instrument text from the text pallet. It works OK for if I add an instrument change from the [Add]>[Text] menu which is a better workaround than using the transpose tool.
I note that the "Current instrument" field in the "Select Instrument" dialogue is empty when I add the pallet text. If I add it from the [Add]>[Text] menu and then click on select instrument in the Inspector, the original instrument is shown in the "Current Instrument" field.
Similar problem with clefs when changing to and from some drum staff, see #328813: Tuning change after instrument change
I thought there might be a better workaround by adding an instrument change text to the score and then adding that to a pallet, to be used instead of the current broken pallet item. Unfortunately, the instrument change text added to the score "remembers" the instrument it was previously added to when dragged to the pallet - i.e. it remembers the "change from" instrument.
For example: working in written pitch (concert pitch button NOT pressed) I created a C maj (concert) Bb clarinet staff (shows 2 sharps at written pitch) and a Cmaj (concert) flute staff. Then I added to the clarinet staff an instrument change from the menu and then CTRL+dragged it to the pallet. When I added that from the pallet to the flute staff with a change to oboe, the key signature became 2 flats, as if I had changed from a Bb clarinet in Cmaj (as transposed). The instrument change worked fine if I added it to the Bb clarinet staff. Selecting A clarinet as the "changed to" instrument gave me a key signature of 3 flats as expected.
It is significant that when I added that newly created pallet Instrument change to the flute staff, the "Current Instrument" field indicated Bb Clarinet. What it should do is identify the current instrument in the staff where and when it is added. This only happens when it is added from the menu.
Should be fixed in Mu4
And shortly in 3.7 too...
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.