Features and shortcuts I'd like to see

• Aug 13, 2021 - 09:24

I've been using Musescore since the start of this year. Here are some ideas for new features I've had in that time:

A "previous function" shortcut. Musescore has so many functions that it is just not possible to come up with "nice" key binds for all of them. The "previous function" function would repeat the last function that you did. For example if I finished notating all of the notes and I want to go through and add all of the articulation in groups (accents, then staccato, then slurs, then staff text etc) I would only have to use the "toggle accent" key bind once and then can just use the "previous function" function to reuse that function and add all of the accents in across the score. This would also be extremely useful to repeat functions that you have not assigned a key bind to.

A "double note value" and "half note value" shortcut. This would double or half the note that you are "holding". This would save time from having to remember and actually click on / use the specific shortcut for a specific note value.

A "toggle diatonic/chromatic note shifting" shortcut. In Musescore, you can use the arrow keys to move notes up or down chromatically. The proposed shortcut would toggle whether the arrow keys would move notes chromatically or diatonically relative to the key.

Able to use scroll in certain shortcuts. For example you could hold a key and scroll to move the selected note up or down. Or hold a key and scroll to gradually increase or decrease the selected notes velocity or other properties. There are many applications for this that cant be bothered explaining

A "paste up/ down an octave" shortcut. I know that you can just paste regularly and then shift it up/down an octave but in the name of workflow efficiency I think that this would be a great addition.

And more that I cant think of right now.

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• Aug 13, 2021 - 10:01

No hitbox as in, no longer able to select them? That would make it rather hard to edit them then, no?

If you don't want to interact with invisible objects, try turning off the option to see them in the View menu. I believe you won't be able to select them with the mouse at that point as well.

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• Aug 13, 2021 - 09:59

A.) A "previous function" shortcut.
There is the "Apply current palette element" shortcut you can configure for this which comes close. It does mean that you have to do the first add from the palette though and not through some other shortcut.

B.) A "double note value" and "half note value" shortcut.
Q/W do that (half/double)
Shift+Q/W do that with a single dot step in-between

C.) A "toggle diatonic/chromatic note shifting" shortcut.
Up/Down is chromatically
Alt+Shift+Up/Down is diatonically
You can add additional shortcuts for diatonically + keep degree alterations

D.) Able to use scroll in certain shortcuts.
That seems like a nice technique to add to some things indeed, though as anything with the mouse, far less accurate than using the inspector to set an explicit value.
I believe the Piano roll editor allows for a more "drawing" like approach to editing for example durations/velocities

E.) A "paste up/ down an octave" shortcut.
I'm not that convinced that this would save so much time to have it use up a default shortcut. If you really want this one, I could write you a very simple plugin that performs those two actions and you may then assign a shortcut to the plugin.

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• Aug 13, 2021 - 22:29

For A), there is apply current palette, and also a separate repeat last command.

For E, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but there is Alt+8 to add octave above, and you can define you own shortcut to add octave below (we ran out of available modifiers that work across systems).

I'm pretty sure I'm not understanding D, so more explanation would be useful, but it sounds like this is simply describing using the Inspector?

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