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Guitar TAB and physical capo setting

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Since Oct 29, 2023.

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Description

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Bug description

Musescore imports .gp files with a capo - setting correctly but changes fingering (the TAB information) when generating the . mscz - file.

Steps to reproduce
  1. I import a (simple) guitar tab from Guitar Pro (a .gp file). The tab has been written - let us say with a capo applied at fret 2. The guitar pro tab displays the fingering with respect to capo 2 - that's what guitarists expect. E.g. a C chord with capo applied at fret 2 "sounds" like a D chord but has a completely different fingering as compared with a standard D chord.
  2. Import from .gp file goes well. Musescore displays the same fingering as Guitar pro and as a text line above the staff "capo fret 2" is displayed - just as in Guitar pro.
  3. Now I save the score in .mscz format and close the file.
  4. When re-reading the .mscz file, Musescore has changed the tab: The former C chord at fret 2 now has been changed to a D chord (with no capo at all) - which still sounds well, but that's not the right fingering of the arrangement.
    It also may happen that musescore generates TAB which is physically impossible to be played by a human hand.
    With other words: the .mscz file disregards the physical setting of a capo in an imported .gp file and computes a tab - I assume simply from the notes.
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MuseScore Version

4.1.1

Regression

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Operating system

Windows 10

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