Automatically changing note durations in a whole score
Hi to everybody,
I was wondering if there is a way to, say, automatically double ALL the note durations in a whole score in Musescore (just like you can transport a whole part by a given interval).
Thanks
Didachus
Comments
No there is currently no way to doing this in MuseScore. In simple cases (no dotted note, no triplet), it could be solved by a plugin.
See : http://musescore.org/en/node/5941
In reply to No there is currently no way by [DELETED] 5
Hi lasconic, I think that it could be done by exporting in xml and editing the file by modifying the <duration> and <type> attributes. Well, perhaps I would need some javascript to do this, but re-importing the xml in Musescore the result would be the desired one. Am I correct?
In reply to perhaps by exporting in xml by didachus
I really doubt that would work. Each measure is defined in the XML, including the notes and voices in each measure. This would mean pulling the note info out, changing the lengths and putting them back into different measures as they would surely change what measures they were in. This also means changing the measure count of the file (doubling), requiring more work.
In reply to I really doubt that would by schepers
I would think if it was fairly easy that the major commercial programs would be happy to supply this tool.
In reply to I really doubt that would by schepers
True, getting a program to reflow the measures would be tricky (but not impossible). Sometimes, though, you might not want it to reflow the measures, like if you want to change from four quarters in 4/4 to four eighths in 2/4 or vice versa (a reasonably common transformation in notating Afro-Cuban or Brazilian music, as much of it traditionally has been done in 2/4, but modern American readers generally expect 4/4). So I could imagine even a "dumb" version of such a utility being useful.
Still, I think changing durations - with the option of reflow - is something MuseScore should eventually support directly.
In reply to True, getting a program to by Marc Sabatella
I find cut time the best.