Playback of caesura produces no discernible pause
I'm trying to notate that the conductor may hold the pause for an indeterminate amount of time, for dramatic purposes. It seems that during playback, the internal MS metronome must continue to "do its job." The workaround I'm using is to insert a quarter-rest, but that doesn't produce the desired effect.
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This is one of the articulations MuseScore does not yet support for playback.
Not sure whether there are plans to implement it in 2.0, but I've switched the category to feature request to more accurately reflect the nature of the issue.
Regarding workarounds it is possible to lenghten a note by the use of tempo text and/or fiddling with note off offset properties.
MuseScore 2.0 R5562/ Windows XP Pro SP3
Came up again in https://musescore.org/en/node/82426 and https://musescore.org/en/node/48536
The infrastructure is in the code (the class Breath contains a member _pause and there is a getPropetry() and setProperty() method), it gets read from and write to a score, but UI to see and set it is missing.
That infrastructure had been added in 4becc39ecb, for #37191: Breath playback is imprecise, before a pause is 0.1 was hardcoded.
See also https://musescore.org/en/node/37191#comment-208626
The thing is, normally a pause is the *wrong* playback effect for breath. It really shpuld just shorten the previous note.
Actually, this report is for caesura. Those do playback and have for some time now, so this should be closed. Pethaps open a separate report for breath, but again, the normal expected result would not be a pause - just a shortening of the last note. So it would be more lime an articulation, not like a caesura at all. Although I suppose both options could be offered.
Sure? Where in the code is the pause set? I could find it.
Edit: but yes it indeed is. No way to Change it though
Edit 2: ah now I found the place, ...mscore/menus.cpp, line 619. and indeed for caesuras only and to a value of 2.0