Unable to Copy & Paste
I have a problem that I've never seen before that has cropped up in a score I am trying to create, and it is driving me batty. I am using MuseScore 2.0.3
The piece has the accompaniment in 4/4 time, and the vocals (three staves) in 12/8 time. The system lets me create the score with these differences, but when I try to copy/paste measures that repeat later in the score, a box comes up that says "Please select the complete tuplet/tremolo and retry command." The problem: I am copying complete measures, and no tuplets or tremolos occur in those measures that cross bar-lines...so I AM "selecting complete tuplets"! (Triplets, in this case. There are no tremolos.)
I've also had weird rest patterns with 32nd and 64th note rests and the like popping up. I have reviewed measures where that has occurred very carefully, and the beats as written match up exactly with the count required in the time signature. I can't even put in a whole measure rest to try to clear it out, and re-enter them; the same thing happens again. (It's not just one measure-- it has happened in several places.)
Help?
Bruce in Palm Desert
Comments
Please share the score having this issue. My suspicion is that you used local time signatures (actually you even write that you do), this can cause this issue and there's no cure for it, I'm affraid, see also #103471: Cannot copy/paste within a Local Time Signature
The 12/8 section is a local time signature. (you used ctrl-drag for the time signature). You cannot copy in or out of a line of music once you have a local time signature on it. Once you have put a note in a measure the measure is considered a triplet, so deleting any existing notes does not fix this situation. What this means it that the entire line of music in now considered a tuplet. This is the way MS handles local time signatures.
The only thing you can do about this is to make another line of music (make a new instrument do not add a staff) that you will replace the problematic line with. Enter the notes in the main time signature, including entering the time changes back only, do not enter the local time signatures until all the main parts are done. You can then copy the notes from the bad line up to the time change, but you will have to manually enter the notes after you made the change or if they are duplicate measures, you can paste notes into them at this point. After all the main time signature notes are put in you can go back and enter local time signatures and enter the notes, which you will not be able to copy and paste at all.
After your new line is entered you will want to go back into the instruments and delete that line.
There should be better information warning of this effect on the local time signature page in the handbook.