Automatic rests
The software keeps adding rests automatically. I get that the software intelligence is trying to keep time, but i can add 40 quarter notes in a measure and those rests are still there and can't be deleted. thank you.
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Adding rests shouldn't really happen.
What will happen is respelling the remaining duration of the silence for which you've replaced part of it with sound.
Or perhaps you're not using voice 1 to input your notes on each staff by default, which would indeed leave those full measure rests visible. The solution then is to swap what is already entered so that you're using voice1 as the first voice on every staff.
In reply to Adding rests shouldn't… by jeetee
Adding 40 quarter notes in a measure? It seems like you are in insert note input mode rather than step time which enforces measure lengths in accordance with the time signature. If you click on the drop down on the note input toolbar button you can choose between the different note input modes.
In reply to Adding 40 quarter notes in a… by SteveBlower
thank you all ... step time did it. while it says "default" they system definitely was not defaulting there. Also, it doesn't seem to make sense that input mode would be inputing rests automatically, but I AM a newbie.
In reply to thank you all ... step time… by bogosianjohn
Insert (not input) mode doesn't insert rests automatically either, it inserts what you write, timewise. So it leaves whatever is already notated in the measure unchanged (be it rests or notes) and inserts whatever you notate (be it rests/notes) inbetween at the position you chose, lengthening the measure by that duration.
Now if you have multiple instruments within a system, that means that indeed because you're inserting time, the inserted duration has to be represented for them somehow. Since you're not inserting sound for those instruments at that moment, what is happening for them is that they get "silence". And the way to notate silence in music is by showing a rest symbol of that duration.
In reply to thank you all ... step time… by bogosianjohn
Step time is the default inasmuch as it is the mode that is set initially. But if you select another mode that stays in force until you select a different mode again. It is possible you managed to fumble just the right keyboard shortcut combination that put you into insert mode.
In reply to Adding rests shouldn't… by jeetee
I think jeetee is on the right track. On every staff, always start in voice 1 even if you're composing for SATB. T goes in voice 1 of its staff and B goes into voice 2 just like S goes into voice 1 and A into voice 2.
Hello, try: select the rests and delete them with CTRL+DEL