The harmony playback feature is now available in MuseScore 3, development of this plugin is thus stopped, thanks for you feedback and positive comments in the past.
A much better alternative for MuseScore 2 is available at https://github.com/per-d/notesFromChordTexts
Another approach, more in the idea of Band-In-A-Box, is being developed (for MuseScore 3) at https://github.com/berteh/BandInMuseScore
This plugin for MuseScore 2.0 expands chords annotations into a few notes in voice 4, directly playable by MuseScore.
No styles, variations, bells or whistles: it's really plain, but does work.
- Check out if you rather use improved version by @Bacchushlg, with
- automatic creation of a new staff line (only one initial staff is accepted in the moment)
- correct chord length according to the distance to the next chord symbol
- some additional chords and synonyms (as found in several scores that I tested)
- Download and install the plugin to your MuseScore 2.0+ install. Only the qml file is needed, but the examples (in test/) are useful to try it out quickly.
- enable the chordsToNotes plugin in
plugins > plugin managerdialog, restart MuseScore. - open a score with chords, make sure MuseScore has parsed them all by hitting F2 (transpose to anything) and SHIFT-F2 (to transpose back)... or simply transpose to a prime (or just to the current key) - so nothing is really changed
- run the plugin via
plugin > Create-Notes-From-Chords - enjoy your new voice 4 with notes generated from the chords, and use [MuseScore shortcuts](see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/note-input) to quickly change the proposed chords to you liking (eg ctrl up/down to move a note up/down one octave)
- I would like to generate these new notes in a new staff instead of new voice in current staff. Any suggestion how to do so is welcome.
- I would like to display notes with the proper length (eg whole, half,...). Any suggestion to get note length info from cursor chord/rest is welcome.
Kindly report issues or requests in the issue tracker.