Rests in measures should be grouped according to time signature

Also applies to 9/8 and 12/8.

9/8 is triple time so they should be grouped as 3 sets of 1/8th notes.

Why is this still an issue two years later? Compound time signature rests should follow maestro_hanson's second example in his attachment. Please fix this.

Can you check the nightly build (link ) to see if it's fixed?

Critical is generally reserved for bugs that cause crashes, or corruption, etc.

I agree it shold be fixed,but note the workaround is quite somp,e - just enter the rests yourself in the usual manner.

Not only are the rests acting like the quarter note is getting the beat when I try to use 6/8, but the tempo is behaving like the quarter note is getting the beat when I play it back, and that is throwing my work off quite a bit.

Hi Nathan. I hope things are getting better.

Your comment about the tempo problem has been discussed, so if you search the site you will get up to date on it.

A small point: since the tempo problem is not related to the other problem here, it should be in it's own thread.

Regards,

Have you checked the rest behavior in a nightly development build? That's where fixes would appear, not in any 1.x release.

FWIW, I checked, and this is still active. Would be nice is the auto-fill algorithm obeyed common time signature conventions for rests. But since you would normally be entering the rests yourself anyhow, I'd consider this relatively minor.

In MIDI import another grouping algorithm is used and it works already:

6/8

• Screenshot
• MIDI file
• Score file

12/8

• Screenshot
• MIDI file
• Score file

I notice the groupoing rest attachement as in x8 mesure beaming is like we see in edited sheet music with 3 8th note long.
Reest semms to follow 2 8th note long
another example you insert a quarter in a 6/8 mesure you should get your quarter and a 8th note rest and then a quarter with a note rest (or a quarter rest and a 8th note rest)
I got a rest that last 2 quarter (how it is called ?)

Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/57201

Came up once more: https://musescore.org/en/node/94011

and again in https://musescore.org/en/node/266800

Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/277433

There's currently some discussion going on at Node #294411, and there's a relative issue at #294419: Allow modification of default for filling measures with rests.

See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/6123.

Fixed in branch 3.x, commit a4ad67d5df

_Fix #4867: Filling measure with rests be affected by time signature

Resolves: https://musescore.org/en/node/4867._

Fixed in branch 3.x, commit 1134156a44

_Merge pull request #6123 from mattmcclinch/4867-rest-durations

Fix #4867: Filling measure with rests be affected by time signature_

Yay!
I just want to say yay.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.