Working fermatas, ritardando, accelerando, etc.
One thing that tends to annoy me about MuseScore is the lack of working tempo embellishments. Though I may put fermatas, ritardandos, or accelerandos in my music, the playback just rushes through them as though they're not there. Please implement these in 2.0.4 or 3.0. ;-)
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Fermatas are implemented alreayd - you just need to tell MuseScore how much effect you want via the Inspector.
In reply to Fermatas are implemented by Marc Sabatella
As to ritardando or accelerando you can simulate them quite well by entering a few tempo texts (made invisible) at strategic locations. It is work to be sure, but it is actually surprising how few steps downward you need to get a quite convincing ritardando effect.
In reply to As to ritardando or by azumbrunn
And there's even a plugin that does this for you, https://musescore.org/en/project/tempochanges
In reply to And there's even a plugin by Jojo-Schmitz
I got the plugin, thanks anyway ;)
In reply to Fermatas are implemented by Marc Sabatella
Ohhh thank you so much! I had no idea!
Though it would be simpler to automatically stretch the fermata by a certain amount (maybe 1.50 or 2.00) by default instead of giving it no effect by default.
In reply to Ohhh thank you so much! I had by McCleffy
"it would be simpler to automatically stretch the fermata by a certain amount (maybe 1.50 or 2.00) by default instead of giving it no effect by default"
+1 for this request
In reply to "it would be simpler to by DanielR
I believe the problem is that all articulations have this time stretch property and it might be difficult to special case fermatas. Also there are (at least in master) several different fermatas; very short, short, normal, long and very long, they'd all need different defaults, I guess?
In reply to "it would be simpler to by DanielR
1.5 or 2.0 ? If we select any of these, some people will not be happy because they want the other, or they want 0. Not sure there is a good solution there, so I would keep it to 0 for now.
In reply to 1.5 or 2.0 ? If we select any by [DELETED] 5
0 would be quite bad, fortunatly it is 1 currently ;-)
In reply to 1.5 or 2.0 ? If we select any by [DELETED] 5
Personally I usually stretch my fermatas to 1.75, so that could be another idea for the default.
In reply to 1.5 or 2.0 ? If we select any by [DELETED] 5
I agree. The length of a note with a fermata as a multiple of the written duration varies wildly depending on the note value/context/style etc. If someone wants it the time stretch value to be consistent, they can always change it to the desired value, Ctrl+Shift+drag the edited fermata to the palette, and delete the old one. As for the ritardando issue, putting in the tempi manually gives a lot more control over the exact nature of the ritardando (plus there's that plugin).