A different red note problem
I am using Musescore 3, a late edition. Many have asked about red notes, which usually indicate a note out of range for the instrument. However, one also occasionally sees red notes temporarily during playback of a manuscript, when selecting a range of notes, or when clicking on a specific note.
In two instances, it appeared to recognize parallel fifths and highlighted these errors with red, as I have described. Kind of cool. Like having Nadia Boulanger watching over your shoulder.
But other errors I do not recognize. Is there more information about this somewhere? I searched "red" and "red notes" and reviewed about 10 pages of discussion (all that I could find) but nobody has even mentioned it.
Thanks.
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See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/voices
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks! You're absolutely right. I just discovered this on my own -- voice 3 is red, and that's what I'm seeing. Voice 2 is green, and hard to see at all. I rarely use voice 4. So all that I saw was red notes and it didn't occur to me that it might be the voicing until I serendipitously glanced at the voice section of the screen.
Now: how can you explain the parallel fifths? Just kidding. Probably so many of them that a few random notes will turn up such errors.
In reply to Thanks! You're absolutely… by jdbeeswax
Since Nadia Boulanger is looking over your shoulder and you are, presumably, seated, this corresponds to a perfect fifth.
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
I don't see anything in the link you provided that says anything about red notes... what am I missing?
I imported a chart from an XML file that was created in another music software (Finale I think). Would that have anything to do with why I'm seeing lots of red notes?
What can I do to make them black?
Thank you.
In reply to I don't see anything in the… by dfellman
Then it is about voices but about notes outside the range of the instrument, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/note-input#coloring-of-notes-out-of…