Quantize
Quantize is preventing me from adding notes to measures where notes are missing from the mscz file created from a pdf. I don't see Quantize in my Edit menu. Is there another way to turn the flippin' thing off?
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What version of MuseScore Studio are you using? (Help / About MuseScore) What operating system are you running? Can you attach the .PDF and the .MSCZ files?
As far as I know, Quantize was an option only in MuS 3. (It's definitely not an option in MuS 4.) It only affected the import process. Once the .MSCZ file was created, the user could then modify the notes normally. What makes you believe that "Quantize is preventing [you] from adding notes"?
In reply to What version of MuseScore… by TheHutch
Sir TheHutch, thank you so much for responding so quickly with you readiness to help. I have MuS 4, so I guess Quantize is not the problem. I assumed it was because I had seen so in responses to questions similar to mine on a forum. My OS is Ventura 13.5. I have been able to proceed by clearing a measure, then re-writing it. However, I am stuck now by having to write rests in a measure before the notes. I try to enter a half rest followed by a quarter rest. It won't accept the quarter rest. It won't move beyond the half rest already inputed.
My job is to transpose a horn part in C to F. I'll attach the pdf of the part in C and the mscz file I've started.
Thank you!
In reply to Sir TheHutch, thank you so… by dansiehl
I'm not sure what you want.
But a half rest followed by a quarter rest only works if you have a 3/4 or 4/4 measure, for example, but not with a 2/4 measure! And from measure 49 you have a 2/4 measure.
Unfortunately, the notes from measure 49 onwards are quite mixed up in your musescore sheet ...
In reply to I'm not sure what you want… by HildeK
In measures 44, 45, 46, 51, 55 , 56, and scattered through the rest of the piece, notice the small, gray plus (+) and minus (-) signs at the upper right corner of the measures. Inspect those measures closely and you'll see that they do not have the appropriate number of beats for the time signature. For example, in measure 44, although the time signature is 4/4 (Common Time, since the beginning), there are only three beats. In measure 45, although the time signature has changed to 2/4, there is only 1/2 a beat. In measure 46, the time signature still 2/4, but the measure has four beats.
These are simply places where the scan messed up. Right-click on one of those measures and choose Measure properties... from the context menu.
This dialog is where you can correct this (or set it, if it's supposed to be that way).
However, the scanned score did not come through very well. Compare your original to the scan measure by measure. In the vicinity of 45 (in the scan, 49 in the original), you'll see that the scan has produced multi-measure rests where the original has whole note and half note rests. You'll need to correct quite a bit to get it to match. But the Measure properties dialog will help.
Good luck!!!
In reply to In measures 44, 45, 46, 51,… by TheHutch
You're right, Hutch. The scan has too many errors; not worth trying to fix them all.
Thanks again for your help.
In reply to I'm not sure what you want… by HildeK
Thanks, Hilda. I'm coming to the conclusion that the mscz file created from the original pdf is just not worth trying to rescue.