Additional drawing/note taking tools

[spinality]

I use the drawing tool constantly, usually with an Apple Pencil. Thanks! So helpful.

I find I do three things all the time: 1. Write chord names. 2. Add five horizontal lines for a little staff, to notate a phrase. 3. Add six or (usually) seven vertical lines crossed by four or five horizontal lines to make a guitar chord grid. These all work fine, but the result is messy, especially if done quickly on the bandstand.

If we had an easy way to add a few icons to the editing tools, along with the pencil, eraser, undo etc., it would be a huge time saver to have icons like: “insert staff,” “insert picture,” “insert chord name,” and “insert chord grid”. Tapping the icon twice would bring up a dialogue like the pencil color selector, to control the size, style, and color of the glyph being drawn. It would just go in as bitmap pixels, like the current drawings, so we could then add notes, dots, accidentals etc. with the pen. But the result would be much cleaner.

I know this would be a lot of work, but perhaps it will appeal to you. As I say, I’m constantly making notes like these that I then have to go clean up in a new Sibelius or Musescore version. I can’t really share my messy notated scores with other musicians.

[Phil Smith]

We probably would not be adding that to the drawing tool. We do already have some of what you're asking for already in the Note Dialogue.

How To Add Notes To Your Score

Some time before the end of the year we will be adding this: Coming Soon...

[spinality]

Thanks for the consideration and reply. Yes I know about the notes tool, of course, but find the drawing interface much faster and like the result of adding bits to the image rather than overlaying a rectangular note. The ability to copy/paste material looks very interesting. If it were also possible to paste from a small list of predefined images, that would do exactly what I had in mind. I’d have a little ossia staff and a chord grid, and would plunk them all over the place for annotating via the drawing tool.

Thanks again for the info.