Accidentals palette
Is there any guidance I can look up, as to what the huge array of accidentals on the palette, do?
I'm familiar, of course, with the five 'normal' accidentals sharp, flat, natural, double sharp and double flat.
There are others in the list which I think pertain to quarter-tones and just intonation etc., but they don't seem to work.
Any help would be appreciated.
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They "work" in the sense of appearing in your score - MuseScore is primarily a *notation* program, after all. It is true they don't also affect playback. For more information on what the accidentals are, you could check out the Wikipedia article on accidentals .
In reply to They "work" in the sense of by Marc Sabatella
Thanks. For a tool that is primarily for notation, the playback engine sounds pretty good to me!
Are there any future plans for an upgrade to support quarter tones and non-ET temperaments in the playback? It's not something I've ever experimented with, seeing as I write mainly for keyboard, but I'm interested in the theory.
You wouldn't be able to export to MIDI, because as I understand it, MIDI only supports ET.
In reply to Thanks. For a tool that is by 661-Pete
MIDI doesn't care about temperament - it just has pitch numbers that indicate semitones. How any given synthesizer choose to tune those semitones is up to that synthesizer.
If you want to hear playback of microtones in MuseScore, you can use note properties in 1.3 or pian roll editor in 2.0 and/or a plugin such as http://musescore.org/en/project/microtune, http://musescore.org/en/project/autotuneselection, or http://musescore.org/en/project/tuningnotecents
In reply to Thanks. For a tool that is by 661-Pete
While it is true that the huge array of palette accidentals can be *notated* into a score, to actually *hear* them played, check out these forum posts:
For some examples of quarter tone playback, see:
http://musescore.org/en/node/25834#comment-101433
For sharp/flat, double sharp/flat, triple sharp/flat playback, see:
http://musescore.org/en/node/23263#comment-88984
Regards, and welcome aboard.