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My next experiment will be to try exporting from MuseScore into other notation programs that I know better. I don't care how convoluted that sounds; it sure beats re-entering the chords.


Agreed! The extra step need not add much effort, anyway, especially for the three or four leadsheets a week I make. These programs slurp up files instantly; re-import is likely faster than learning a new way of editing.

Users claim MuseScore is easy to learn, but I don't think they grasp how dumb I am.



PS EDIT:

Import into MScore is sometimes unable to handle repeats at all -- it may bail out and stop converting after the first ending. In other tunes, it transcribes the whole piece pretty nicely with complicated repeats, but always in an "unfolded" form.

It oddly prints the Time and Key signatures on a separate line at the end.

It sometimes leaves out notes in the pieces I've tried.

So the process will not be automatic, and there's plainly going to be a fair amount of editing to do somewhere. That's not a shock.


I haven't seen again the bad note timing I originally complained of. I may have arbitrarily grabbed a sloppy melody for the first go. The notes actually look pretty good, including most triplets. There's never many notes missing; at their worst, they could be moused in quickly.

Last edited by allis; 03/28/11 01:19 PM.