Splitting/joining measures for individual staves and not every staff in the score
Hello everyone!!
I am not entirely sure how to word this properly, so please bear with me. Also, I have not made any forum posts in the past, so my formatting may not be proper!! Please, excuse me.
Essentially, I want to split and/or join measures in a specific staff, or multiple specific staves, but unfortunately this is not possible as any split or join affects every staff in the score, which is unwanted. The reason I would like to do this is to make a cut-out score where I can have a staff begin or end mid-system, without interrupting the note duration of any notes located on a different staff, like in the attachment named 2 (in which I attempted to illustrate the aforementioned example). I will attach another example, too.
I know this is quite literally the definition for a cut-out score, but I felt it was necessary to explain it in full detail either way. I apologize if it was redundant.
Please don't hesitate to ask for further clarification if it was not clear enough!! Thank you all for your help. :)
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Check these three How-To's: How to create an ossia using image capture, How to add cue notes, and How to create an ossia with another staff. I think one of them will probably give you what you need. If not, return here and tell us what you tried and how it did not meet your needs and we'll try again.
In reply to Check these three How-To's:… by TheHutch
Thank you for the quick reply!
I have tried them all and, unfortunately, none of them work for my case. Image capture was removed and has yet to be re-implemented (Hopefully doesn't take long!), and the other 2 options are essentially how I am doing things right now, only difference being that I hide empty measures by selecting the "cutaway score" option under the staff properties menu.
All of these options work exactly as intended, which is great! But my issue comes when I want to split a measure without splitting the same measure for the other instruments in my score. Say, my project, a string quartet, is in 4/4 and I want to split measure #4 in 2 before the second rest, but only for the violin 1, effectively leaving measure #4 as a 3/4 for the violin 1 and 4/4 for the violin 2, viola and cello, so when I make my score cutaway it only hides the newly created 1/4 measure and thus effectively making the 3/4 measure start mid-measure in reference to measure #4 of the other instruments. As of right now, any splits or joins made to a measure in any staff affect every other instrument as well.
I know contemporary composers are probably a minority and features such as this one may not be a priority, but I would love if MuseScore could hone and add some features to help contemporary composers such as myself. This is not the place for suggestions, and non-traditional notation is not easy to implement, but I still wanted to mention this.
Again, thank you very much for your response!!