Anchors for Dynamics and Hairpins
Tools to do one of these more easily:
- create tensions < > and > < (the musical 😣?) (hairpins spanning a single note) , or
- create details in audio output such as swell effect with soundfonts inside Musescore by disfiguring a score (as an alternative to a DAW such as REAPER), or
- create roughly vertically aligned barlines, demo.
Use one of these methods:
- Create anchors for dynamics symbols (eg mf ) and hairpins (eg crescendo, decrescendo) by
- Inserting divided rests at voice 4 of selected notes
- Optionally make them invisible and toss aside, or
- Split notes and add ties
- Provides actions which can be set up with keyboard shortcuts:
- Adjust each selected dynamics symbols, add hand/staff level mf to each staff's voice 4 if none selected.
- Clear all voice 4 dynamics symbols only, in the selected phrase
Download musescore_anchorsdynhairpin_20230224A.zip
Backup the score BEFOREHAND, also, running this plugin adds a lot of small undoable steps that almost renders the undo function pointless.
Also check out Dynamics actions plugin for more dynamics symbol related keyboard shortcuts, and Soundfont, MIDI velocity and instruments.xml for MIDI CC response in soundfonts.
Demo
Setup
Download and Install: musescore 3 how-to, musescore 4 how-to
Enable plugins you need and setup shortcut: musescore 3 how-to, musescore 4 how-to
Note: Make sure the keyboard shortcut is not assigned in Preference>Shortcuts already.
Feedback
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Old versions
musescore_anchorsdynhairpin_230223B.zip
musescore_anchorsdynhairpin_230208B.zip
Extra for developers
musescore_anchorsdynhairpin_20230224Adev.zip
AFDHAssertAndDemo.7z
License
None. Do whatever you want, no need to ask for permission. Glad to share a link to your improved plugin on this page, just let me know.