Repeated bar input
I have just discovered MuseScore and think it is fantastic - well done. There is, however, one feature which appears in Sibelius, that I would like to see in MuseScore and that is the ability to easily repeat inputted bars when using the keyboard. In sibelius, when you are inputting music via the keyboard, it is possible to select one or more bars and press the 'R' key to repeat those bars - like a copy and paste but much simpler. This single key shortcut makes it easy to, for instance, write out a bar of drum rhythm containing maybe 2 or more voices and then just select it and hit 'R' say 16 times to get a long repeating pattern. Similarly, on a score I have just been inputting, the 8-bar melody was repeated 4 times and so, select the 8 bars - hit 'R' 3 times and its done.
My wishlist would also include an easy way to convert the 100+ scores I have in Sibelius to MuseScore but I'm sure that will come in time....
Many thanks,
Ian
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I've never used Sibelius, but if it will export your scores to MusicXML format, MuseScore will open them. I've done this with some of my Finale files. I'll admit the results are sometimes mixed and needs clean up, but at least I don't have to input everything again.
In reply to I've never used Sibelius, but by newsome
Unfortunatly, Sibelius does not have MusicXML export out of the box. The official way is to use the dolet plugin from Recordare. It's far from free but do a decent job.
In reply to No MusicXML export in Sibelius by [DELETED] 5
That's the point - it seems a bit silly having to spend a lot of money for an additional program just to ditch Sibelius - then the new program will, of course, be redundant....
There is the alternative which was mentioned in another thread of printing to a PS file, converting that to PDF and then from PDF to MusicXML ( one page at a time with the 'trial version' of PDFtoMusicXML ) but this is very long winded and it took me over an hour to transfer one 24-page score yesterday..It does work but my life is passing.........
In reply to No MusicXML export in Sibelius by Bassman_
For more information on this topic see http://www.musescore.org/en/node/1458
In reply to No MusicXML export in Sibelius by Bassman_
If only people were able to contact you privately. Maybe a kind user with access to Sibelius would like to convert a couple of scores for you and save you precious time.
In reply to No MusicXML export in Sibelius by Bassman_
"That's the point - it seems a bit silly having to spend a lot of money for an additional program just to ditch Sibelius - then the new program will, of course, be redundant...."
I couldn't really tell if you meant to be derogatory toward MuseScore, but that issue seems more like a mark against Sibelius. It seems to be Sibelius' way to lock you into their program so you don't go anywhere.
In reply to Your comment by newsome
Not at all derogatory towards MuseScore - its a fine project with a lot of promise. Sibelius is also a very good program but I just hate programs like that which are not compatible with the rest of the world. Dammit, Sibelius isn't even compatible with itself from one release to the next!!!! (backwards compatible, that is). I haven't played with MuseScore enough yet to know just how good it is, but it does seem to have a lot going for it - if only I can get the playback sounds to behave themselves - I'm having problems persuading it not to play back as a piano all the time and to put the percussion voices in the 'right' places on the staff...... dohhh!!
In reply to Not at all derogatory towards by Bassman_
For more sounds than just piano see SoundFont in the handbook.
In reply to For more sounds than just by David Bolton
I sorted it now thanks - I was having difficulty persuading Windoze Vista to accept the soundfont I was trying. Its now working fine with FluidR3. The install I did on Ubuntu 9.10 went much easier...
In reply to No MusicXML export in Sibelius by [DELETED] 5
An update two years later. You can now export MusicXML out of Sibelius for free. The Dolet plugin is now available for free. The MusicXML file can then be imported in MuseScore.