apply measure duration propetries to multiple meausres at once
I have been working with importing scanned 7/8 music (Romanian) xml into Musescore 3 and Musescore 4 using the latest Audiveris 5.3. Correcting scanned errors in Audiveris is not easy. The music gets imported with the default 4/4 with an extra 1/8 note rest at the end of every bar. I can change the measure property of a single bar which then plays the melody correctly. It is just too tedious to do this to all 32 or more measures. I have tried selecting a group of measures but the changes only apply to the one default measure first selected. Is there an easy way to fix this? A measure property "format" painter would be great (like what MS word has).
Is there a quick way to apply this measure property to other measures?
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Can you post the PDF version?
In reply to Can you post the PDF version? by bobjp
Here is the original pdf. Are there tweaks in Audiveris to improve the scanning?
In reply to Here is the original pdf. … by catnip
That is a very simple score. It is very probably going to be much easier to enter it yourself rather than try to get Audiveris to interpret it properly or to correct it when Audiveris makes a mess of it.
I think the fastest way may be:
- create and insert an 8/8 time signature
- adjust measure property to 7/8 , click apply, click the little arrow pointing "right" to select the next measure.
edit: oh, just learnt that you can also delete the 8th rest with ctrl+delete and it will have the same effect as above
After the above steps you can insert a 7/8 time signature.
Be aware that there are quartoles in the Sibelius PDF that span the duration of a dotted quarter note.
These quartoles are weird because they consist of 16th instead of 8th (as they should if I'm not mistaken)
You have to reinput them: make a dotted quarter rest and input a quartole from the main menue.
In reply to I think the fastest way may… by musikai
Thanks, I appreciate your reply. Using the right arrow simply moves the selection to the next measure. Setting the measure to 7/8 takes a bit of time using the pull down menus. Using Crtl-Delete on rest is more efficient but there is no way to select all the rests and crtl-delete them at once. A format brush would be very useful.
In reply to Thanks, I appreciate your… by catnip
Yes, I also tried selecting all the rests which can be done by right clicking on an eigth rest and selecting "more" - same value etc. (luckily Musescore does have this fine way of a filter, such selection methods and filters are really most important!)
But then ctrl+delete doesn't work on these multiple objects like it does on a single selection. (= feature request)
In reply to Yes, I also tried selecting… by musikai
An alternative approach: use an optical music recognition (OMR) program which handles time signatures better?
This example (using Sharpeye) handled the 7/8 time signature with no problem. It did choke on the quadruplets which are notated as 16th notes (semiquavers) in the PDF. Once I changed the 16th notes to 8th notes, the errors disappeared:
![Romanian_song_OMR.jpg]( "Romanian_song_OMR.jpg")
Good OMR is way quicker than manual entry of the notes.