2.02 Format and Audio
I find that since I upgraded to 2.02 (from 1.x) it has messed my formatting around a bit, I assume that is normal? I don't think it is anything that I can't fix though.
My other and main question is, since I am preparing to upload some of my compositions to MuseScore, is there a way I can have it so the playback function is disabled?
My reason is that while I find playback useful in checking my compositions, it is not "music" as such, and I would rather just share the score with other musicians and, at some point, make some recordings of my performance of the compositions so others can get an idea "how" it should be played.
Any help here will be much appreciated.
Comments
The layout may indeed have changed vs. 1.x, usually for the better, but in some cases. esp. when tweaking the score away from the defaults heavily, in oder to work around shortcommings in 1.x, or when having used certain elements wrongs, like extending spanners (slurs, volta brackets, ottava lines, etc) wronly, using the mouse rather then Shift+left/right arrow.
In reply to The layout may indeed have by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for the tips. It does seem as though version 2.x has actually improved formatting, so that I do not have to employ such extreme measures with spacers and stuff like that. So mainly I am removing formatting that seems no longer necessary :-)
Does anyone know if it is possible to disable the playback on uploaded scores?
In reply to Thanks for the tips. It does by Oliver St. John
No it's currently not possible to disable the playback on uploaded scores.
In reply to No it's currently not by [DELETED] 5
Thanks! Saves me looking through everything again. I think it would be nice if it were possible to do that. While I was going through it, I found ways to refine my tempo settings further with rallentando, allargando and all that, which does at least give a better indication on the playback of how it is meant to be played.
In reply to Thanks! Saves me looking by Oliver St. John
I can't test right now, but selecting all notes and unchecking the "Play" property in the Inspector should make the uploaded score silent as well.
In reply to I can't test right now, but by Isaac Weiss
Thanks, I will try that!
In reply to Thanks, I will try that! by Oliver St. John
If you do, please add a note in the description of your score. It will save us a couple of emails to support stating that the score doesn't make any sound...
In reply to If you do, please add a note by [DELETED] 5
Yes I will, but I don't think I will try and disable the sound playback now. I took some time going through the two scores that I wanted to upload and discovered that it is possible to do quite a lot with stretching the tempo, controlling the length of pauses, prolonged notes, and creating a "tenuto" hold by planting an invisible tempo change followed by a change back to the normal tempo. In the version 2.x it also seems to do the glissando and arpeggiated chords very smoothly and there is some control over how that sounds. So I have uploaded my two compositions for guitar with the sound on, happy that although it is not actually music, which could only be done by recording someone playing it, it will give a much better indication as to how the piece is meant to be played.
Previously I was mainly interested in the score being accurate and printing nicely and didn't pay too much attention to the playback other than as an easy way to check for note accuracy. It seems it is well worthwhile spending a couple of hours (in fact it took me all day but that was the first time) editing the scores to get the playback more representational :-)