different time signatures - bug?
Hello!
I am preparing an orchestral score. I added all the instruments and the general time signature 12/8. But a few instruments will start in 4/4. I added it successfully to the English horn, and successfully to the bass clarinet. And when I come to the contrabassoon and add 4/4, the complete score switches to 4/4! Yes, I used ctrl+4/4 like in the other instruments and checked multiple times. I always changes the whole score to 4/4. Same when I changed the contrabasses to 8/8.
What am I doing wrong or is it a bug?
Thanks and best wishes,
Tobias
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I noticed an interesting fact: If I change the position of the contrabassoon (or any other instrument) in the 3rd order (top to bottom), the individual time changes work! So this very much looks like a bug!
It seems to be an error.
But if you select the measure first and then use Ctrl + 4/4 time signature, then it works.
Dragging with Ctrl+4/4 works for all measures, but not the first one.
How did you achieve it for the English horn and bass clarinet? I have no idea!
In reply to It seems to be an error. But… by HildeK
In my place the order of clicking measure and pressing ctrl does not have an effect on the result. It does not work either way. It only works on 3rd place in the layout order - thats the trick... (that should be fixed)
In reply to In my place the order of… by violinconcerto
Are you on a different OS? I'm on Windows.
There are two methods to set a local time signature:
The first method does not work if you choose measure no. 1 - this is a mistake. But it works with measure 2 and others.
In reply to Are you on a different OS? I… by HildeK
Thanks! That was new to me!
But the whole "changing individual time signatures in a larger score" needs a fixure! I started writing notes in the score and when I change an individual instrument to 12/8 (from 4/4) other instruments change as well (although I don't want that and although the time signature is still 4/4)..... not nice
Interesting. I opened the test score and was unable to change just the contrabassoon part to 4/4.
Then I added some notes to a 12/8 measure one and a 4/4 measure one. Afterwards I was able to change any single staff to 4/4.
In reply to Interesting. I opened the… by bobjp
With MuseScore.3.7.0 and 4.5.2 Nightly. and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS I was experimenting the same problem as described when trying to add different time signatures to the individual staves. Now, I just downloaded the new patch 4.5.2 and the problem disappear. I can allocated different time signatures to every instrument without problem. The described problem apparently was really a bug!.
In reply to With MuseScore.3.7.0 and 4.5… by puggbma
Just uploaded to 4.5.2 (before I had 4.5.1), but no major difference. In my score whenever I change somewhere the time signature, I have to re-confirm in any other instrument that the previous different time signature is still valid. For example in my score the English horn starts in 4/4 and every few measures the measure starts with 4/4 again, because otherwise it would be 12/8 like most of the other instruments.
Still a major bug!
In reply to Just uploaded to 4.5.2 … by violinconcerto
It is really very seldom. I was using your score as test . I do the following:
1. I select a measure.
2. I press the key Ctrl .
3. While maintaining pressed the key Crtl. I make Click on the selected time signature. The selected time signature replaces only the old one.