musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Allow "paste linked" - linking notes (and others) between independent staves, or to different places in one part.

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Description

Your idea

It may be useful, to have ability to link several pieces of melodies between independent parts, if several instruments play unisono passages (or same melody is repeated in ine part multiple times).

Problem to be solved

In unisono passages, every change needs to be made to all unisono parts.
(It is easy, to make error - forget some change in some part)

Prior art

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Additional context

It may be done by adding "Paste linked command".

Theese linked notes may have different (violet) colour, when selected (one selected -> all linked coloured).

Note may be unlinked by clicking "unlink" in context menu.
(In Properties tab, if linked, there may appear ticker "linked", which once note became unlinked disappears.)

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the existing paste, note selection, context-menu, and Properties workflows; done means linked notes can be created across staves or within a part, selected together, and unlinked as described.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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