Bugs in C15 score

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I began with importing a mxml file from MuseScore, but I don’t think that has any bearing on the issue — In the Score edit window —Saying I have two “G’s” in a measure and I transpose the second one, either way. The first one vanishes, but it is still there in piano roll edit. Going to piano roll and transposing the note, then putting it back to “G”, makes it re- appear in Score.

Guys, the tools screens from the drop down shouldn’t auto close after edit. I finished a chart with several musical cues scattered throughout the chart. Once the chart is done, I go back and change the note heads to cues. Menu bar > Score > Note Head. Except there is no Cue size note head there (unlike MuseScore and C12) so I have to use a slash. But the problem is that the window closes after each edit. It would be great for it to stay open, instead. And really, “note head” should be under Note Functions side bar, instead of in the menu. Something I like about MuseScore is, if you right click, the note edit screen pops up that makes work go quicker..

Similar, setting number of bars per stave is a PITA, for the same reason - I can’t leave the Staves and systems window open, and make multiple edits, and, once open, I can’t make an edit… . It is way easier to read a chart if things like “B” (the bridge) begins on a new stave, not in the middle, coda sections, DC / DS, are at the beginning or end of a stave. So sometimes there has to be 5 bars per stave, then 3 on the next one, for instance. This was really easy to do in C12 - select a stave, open “Number of bars” edit, select new stave, edit, etc..

Frankly, I think your coders should start with a song like Horace Silver’s “ecaroh” which has 2 codas, shift from latin to swing, and make a chart, then transpose it to another key. I think you’ll run into a lot of the these things.

And - I can’t figure out which program, C15 or MuseScore, has this issue, but coda signs don’t always make it across correctly when using mxml. The rest of the guys in the combo use MuseScore 4.6, which has its own issues, so I prefer to work in C15, but I also have MuseScore, to make sure the import is correct in C15.

I hope to see an update to C15 score soon.

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as for the disappearing note, I think you have to uncheck ‘grace notes’ in the instrument settings, though I have no such problem transposing notes.

Michel

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Back again… It’s not a grace note.. Sorry

I am working on adapting a lead sheet from Freddie Hubbard’s version of Pensativa, from piano, Tbon , Ten Sax, trp., to gtr . Ten Sax, Trp. This project has been a real pain due to a couple of things:

1 - the multiple locations of controls for note editing, and

2 - pop up windows from the menu score drop down that will not let you select once the window is open (like changing note head to small slash).. Even though I can do this in groups of notes, it slows things down when I am working around single note phrases..

At letter A , and B when I get to it, , I am giving the Trp the melody, and putting the tenor on the upper harmony part, then having the guitar chordally reinforce the tenor (as Emmet Cohen does in his version of Pen.) There of lines that have to be played, and rhythm patterns.. a mix of In order to do that, the harmony part has to be copied down to the guitar part, then all of the notes converted to Bb, then note heads changed to slashes (as is standard for indicating a rhythm part) with the chords placed above each slashed note. I haven’t done that part yet, because I need to figure out how to have those chords appear only on the guitar chart, not globally. And I need to put in articulation, too.

So it has been very slow, since I have to open and close windows to edit the guitar part. . It would be great if someone could offer advice as to how to streamline this process..

For example, here is the Ten Sax in concert with the Gtr part under it…

Pensativa excerpt.pdf (83.9 KB)

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I don’t really see many options for you, and I agree the score editor is unhandy at times. But maybe, as I did, you’re expecting too much from the score editor. I write my music and do some basic formatting in cubase, but then I export it to Sibelius for all the remaining layout.

I know you’re not using grace notes, but the trick to let notes not disappear is apparently to switch off ‘grace notes’ in Instrument Settings, and also to have DQ switched off. Worked for me. It’s a strange trick.

To not show chords globally switch off ‘show chord symbols’ per instrument in the Instrument Settings.

As for the notehead symbols, all you can do is select as many at a time as you can and set the desired noteheads in one click. But it’s a job, I agree. Too bad there’s not a keyboard shortcut for it.

Actually for the guitar player, I see it’s rather up tempo, can he switch from melody notes and to a chord that quick? well I’m no guitar player.

Same with articulations, select as many notes as you can in one go. But if the notes are on different staves, select them, close the score editor, go to the list editor, you’ll see the hilited notes, and you can set the articulations there for all. Be sure to have closed the score editor or it will crash.