https://ci.appveyor.com/project/MuseScore/musescore/build/1.0.1043/artifacts
Run “nightly.bat”
Basic instructions:
When create new instrument → search shamisen and modify it’s staff type to Tab. shamisen
There is actually a bug which add the stems, just right click on the staff → staff properties → advanced style properties (apply even if nothing change and return to the score, stem disappears): here you have all shamisen style parameters (font size, continuous line or not): if you enable “Letters” instead of “numbers” you switch to nagauta notation
For note input, it’s as the other styles in Musescore
Just note that if you add a note, the rests will not be shown automatically (you should add the 16th manually after a 8th+dot for example)
Last thing: Silence is in this version considered as the highest note possible (so just up the note until the silence glyph appears), if you want make it silent, just select it and disable “play” in the inspector
If you want do that quickly: select silence, right click, select, more, and select “same pitch/same string”, then all silences of the string will be selected and you can mute them all in once
To modify the tuning: staff properties → edit string data (if you want nagauta all the strings (1 or 3) should be the lowest pitch of the tuning (ex: B E B → B B B)
To change the note position (string 1 → 2) without change the pitch, maintain CTRL and move the notes with the arrow keys (up/down)
Last remark: The 3.0 of musescore is unstable
You should save your work as much as possible to avoid problems
I know that actually it’s very not convenient, but it actually can produce scores and all of this should be improved in the future
