Understand Tempo

• Dec 1, 2016 - 22:45

Hi,

There is different when the tempo is entering as "ca. 64" and "64".
"ca. 64" is lot faster than 64. Why is this?

Thanks.


Comments

I'm going to make some assumptions here.

You used the Tempo text to enter the tempo and you type (note symbol) = 64 and (note symbol) =ca 64. if you select each of the tempos with the inspector window open (F8 opens and closes it) you will see the tempo for x = 64 is 64 and x = ca 64 is 120 which is the default if MS doesn't know what else to use. uncheck the follow text check box and the tempo will change to a number that can be modified. You can then change this to any number you like including decimals such as 64.5 if you like.

If you did anything else please explain.

In reply to by mike320

It also works if you add the "ca." later, once MuseScore did parse the string and extracted the correct tempo.
The parser is just not clever enough to ignore that "ca." or a "~", not to figure what "quarter-note= 80-90" means (probably should play at 85, but MuseScore detects it to be 80)

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