How do I create Nested Triplets

• Aug 14, 2011 - 00:58

in Version 1.1. Revision 4611:
Selecting triplets and selecting triplets for each third of that triplet doesn't seem to produce the correct results.
How can I do this?

Thanks,
- George -

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• Aug 14, 2011 - 09:09

It does work for me

  1. Create a score
  2. Press N, 5, Ctrl + 3
  3. Ctrl + 3 again
  4. Enter 3 pitches, for example, C, C, C
  5. Press 4, go to step 3 and repeat.

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• Aug 14, 2011 - 11:03

Thanks for your response.

[Forgive me, originally I was going to go through an elaborate explanation (which explains the typo in the subject line) but then decided on doing things this way - it's kind of a long story.]

Anyway, now that you have nested triplets try to cut and paste them into another measure; it won't work. Please verify.

This is why I was thinking there might be another method. For example, nested triplets on a whole note is actually nine notes in the space of the whole note. Which would be N, 7, Ctrl + 9. But what is the normal notation in these circumstances.
Also, can you see any problem using this alternate method?

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• Aug 15, 2011 - 14:07

I'd definitely agree. The timing will always be "an n-tuplet," and it's a lot easier to visually parse "the number nine" than to look upon a complicated two-tiered arrangement of lines and to do multiplication on-the-fly while you're trying to play what is obviously a complicated passage. Also, it will visually take up a consistent amount of vertical space on the page. (Musical notation has an unlimited length to work with, but a very limited height.)

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