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Parenthesized notes cannot be made to play normally
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Description
Issue type
General playback bug
Description with steps to reproduce
- Write a series of identical notes
- Place parentheses around one of them
- Play
Result: the parenthesized note plays softer and/or shorter than the others (specifics depend on the instrument/sound). In some cases, this is expected - the parentheses might be intended to indicate a muted or ghost note. But in other cases the parentheses might be editorial in nature. So while it is argukmably OK to default to using ghost playback, it should be possible to disable this by unchecking Play from the parantheses. This has no effect, however.
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This is using MS Basic, where the effect is present but a bit subtle:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/89cdaf76-8552-4f3b-9a92-577be6067d8c
It's much more obvius with MuseSounds - for example Muse Keys / Grand Piano.
In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
4.7.4
Regression
I was unable to check
Operating system
Debian 12
Additional context
I think MuseSounds may have only started doing this automatic mute playback for instruments other than guitar recently, but I can't be sure. I don't think MS Basic did in the past, but it does now - just not as strongly as MuseSounds. But I'm less concerned with the default than I am with the inability to disable the effect.
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