musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Copy and paste discrete notes with their rhythmic pattern
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Since Jul 29, 2024.
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Description
Your idea
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Problem to be solved
Say I want to make the left picture into the right one:
The most straightforward way coming to my mind is to selecting all these low A's then cut and paste, sadly it doesn't work, I have to copy-paste the whole bar and delete useless chords one by one.
Due to things like issue #19045, when writing for piano I sometimes prefer to work in a single staff at first and split it some way afterwards, but not able to copy & paste discretely selected notes like that make it much slower; and lacking box selection ability (#15282) makes the last step of deletion even harder to complete.
There's an action called 'move selected note/rest to staff above/below' but it's for cross-staff beams...
Prior art
In a DAW I can simply copy and paste any selected notes in any topology shape, and their duration relative position will be kept. Not strictly a prior art from notation software tho.
Additional context
Tried this on MS 3.x and it doens't work either.
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