Allow copy/paste partial tuplets

Not a bug but by design (as the error message makes pretty clear too), and been that way ever since.

During note entry, after having entered the 1st chord of that triplet, just press R

OK, so let's turn it into a feature request, AKA Suggestion

"...pressing R in note entry mode simply moves the cursor to the next rest, without repeating/duplicating."

It works if you press R immediately after entering the first chord. It also works (sort of) if you start not in note entry mode then click on one of the notes of the chord, press N (to enter note entry mode) and then press R twice. The first press of R seems to replicate the chord on top of itself and move the entry point to the next position. Pressing R then replicates the chord at that position.

So it works in a clunky sort of way but it would be nicer if it was declunked.

Those were for MuseScore 2 ...

What I think you are missing is that while it it might be possible to copy a single note of a tuplet to another time position that is itself already within a tuplet, you can do that in general and have it make musical sense. For example, a single triplet eighth copied to a different beat in a different measure that has no other triplets - how is this even possible, musically / mathematically?

What is possible in theory, though, is to copy within a single triplet. So that much at least could potentially be special-cased and allowed in the way "R" already is.

MuseScore does permit copying of a single-note chord from a tuplet to any other tuplet (even to a tuplet of a different ratio - it simply sets the duration of the pasted note to fit the paste destination). But it won't permit this same process for a multiple-note chord within a tuplet. I can't think why this would be the case?

There really isn't anything you can do after copying except paste, so that's why disallow it there rather than get your hopes up :-) But as mentioned, yes, we could conceivably someday allow the copy then complain on the paste but allow it for paste within the same tuplet.

The special thing MuseScore does for copying single notes by simply transferring the pitch info to another chord works pretty differently, and is limited to single notes only because in general, there is no guarantee a selection of multiple notes are even from the same chord, and we would have no way of recording that info the way selections are represented internally. Ranges and lists are totally different in that way.

So, again, it's not impossible to improve this someday, but I just want people to realize these are weird arbitrary limitations we impose just to be mean :-). There really are reasons why it isn't so simple.

While I fully understand and support your user point of view, I'm also curious to understand in which circumstances that copy facility would be useful. Entering the single note in the target tuplet by keyboard is at least as quick if not more than copying an existing one isn't it? Or that's because the note to copy comes with all its articulations that you then don't need to redo?

'' a straight rhythm, and wanted to experiment how it sounds in triplets ''
Now I'm even more confused.
How being able to copy partial triplet to partial triplet would help you to achieve transforming straight rhythm into triplets?

Ok and that makes lot of sense for that.

Pasting a single triplet value could have a perfectly well defined meaning in an arbitrary location. If the destination isn't a triplet, Just paste a triplet with the first of the three values followed by two triplet value rests. (An additional related feature request would be to allow copying just the notes and not the duration, which would make copying a chordal accompaniment much easier.)

I don't suppose there's been any progress made/workarounds found here? I'm setting a piece that's very repetitive and almost entirely composed of tuplets and it would save me hours if I could just copy and paste

See above

To be clear - you can copy tuplets - you just need to select the entire tuplet as mentioned.

For repeating triplets the best workaround is: enter a triplet in rests; select & repeat x time with key R; fill in the notes.
To copy/paste partial tuplets copy the triplet to a workspace and use the duration editor plugin which ‘untriplets’ the triplet.

Thanks. I do understand that but it is not terribly helpful in my case—the music is repetitive but with hardly any repetition at the measure/entire tuplet level.

Thanks! The first suggestion should at least help a little bit, and the second potentially helps a lot, although I have to learn how to do it.

If you can't find what to download: look for the word 'assets' in
https://github.com/lgvr123/musescore-durationeditor/releases
and click on that

And another thing... Be aware that the uintriplet operation may change the duration of that measure (indicated by little gray + or -). You can restore the correct length via measure properties or just discard this workspace measure.

I just want to put in a plug for my recommended solution above. I think it is straightforward and easy to understand. It would be my preferred behavior.

Forgot to mention that the author maintains a Duration Editor Feedback page
https://musescore.org/en/node/325455
and he is eager to help

The workaround mentioned here no longer works in Musescore 4, as it does not support the duration editor plugin.

Ant it isn't supposed to, as long as it doesn't get ported

I'm confused; what is the workaround for this issue (being unable to copy & paste within a tuplet) in Musescore 4?

(accidentally changed workaround status)

There is none for Mu4, but there is for Mu3.

And this issue tracker has been discontinued, so re-report in on GitHub