Multiple Time Signitures
There should be a way (unless there already is) to have multiple time signitures at once. For example, in an old band song, some of the brass was in 2/4 while the rest of the band was in 6/8. It would be nice to have this feature in one of the songs I'm making.
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Create the score in 2/4. Use tuplets in the 6/8 part. hide the tuplets. hide the time signature and use the Z palette to add 6/8 time sig.
see also http://musescore.org/en/node/8276, an old feature request.
In reply to see also by Jojo-Schmitz
At one time, I thought a "local time signatures" feature had actually been implemented for the Goldberg project: see http://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/scrapbook, maybe a quarter of the way down. I take this this ultimately led to problems and was backed out?
In reply to At one time, I thought a by Marc Sabatella
It is still in the recent nightly build (drag anc drop a time sig with the Ctrl Key presses), but I can't get it to work properly??
In reply to It is still in the recent by Jojo-Schmitz
It's not consistent. Ctrl-drag of a time sig like 3/4 onto a multi-instrument (piano, voice, trumpet in that order) 6/8 score works for some instruments but not others. Sometimes all change to 3/4, other times the local one stays. Ctrl-drag a 3/4 to the top stave of the piano is fine. Do it to the bottom stave of the piano and usually all change. Drag it to the trumpet and all change. Drag it to voice and only voice changes.
In reply to It's not consistent. by schepers
I can't reproduce in f9f8462d96
Can you give more details?
In reply to I can't reproduce in by [DELETED] 5
Look at the mess I've made out of your example from above
WinXPpro SP3, cbd68b8
In reply to I can't reproduce in by [DELETED] 5
1. Create a new score with piano, voice and horn in F (any order), 6/8 time, C. Save it.
2. Ctrl-drag a 3/4 onto the top piano stave. All will change (but they shouldn't).
1. Reload the saved score.
2. Ctrl-drag a 3/4 onto the bottom piano stave. Usually all will change, sometimes only this one.
1. Reload the saved score.
2. Ctrl-drag a 3/4 onto the Horn stave. All the staves will change.
1. Reload the saved score.
2. Ctrl-drag a 3/4 onto the Voice. All the staves will change.
Note I had you reload the saved score each time. If you don't and simply undo and try it again, then it usually works as intended.
1. Reload the saved score
2. Ctrl-drag a 3/4 onto the top piano stave. All will change.
3. Undo and redo the operation. Now, sometimes, only the one stave will change, sometimes all will change. Try doing something (select something, click somewhere) and try again.
4. Once it finally changes only one stave, undo and see a BUG: the 3/4 will disappear leaving nothing behind, Save close/reopen and the timesig is still missing.
Step 3 is the most difficult because I don't know what operation I can do to _make_ the bug disappear. Sometimes only the one stave will change, sometimes all. Sometimes it works right away, sometimes I need to do something between drags to make it work.
In reply to 1. Create a new score with by schepers
I miss the more important piece of info. Your version of MuseScore and OS.
Here is MuseScore 2132d798ea doing the two first paragraphs without problem. What do I miss ? http://www.screenr.com/nMP7
In reply to I miss the more important by [DELETED] 5
Nightly f9f8462, Win8 64-bit
I just watched your ScreenR capture. I am only changing the first measure, not one later on. Maybe that's what you're not seeing.
When I factory reset it just now, it worked correctly (changed keysig on the one stave) the first time. But not the second time. When I just drag (not Ctrl) a new keysig to one of the first measures sometimes nothing happens, then it does when I drag it again. Strange.
In reply to Nightly f9f8462, Win8 by schepers
OK. It depends if you drop on the measure or on the time signature.
In reply to It is still in the recent by Jojo-Schmitz
Ah, I didn't see the additional option in the measure properties dialog, but I hadn't fully read the description to see I need to crrl-drag first. There is still nothing about it in the measure properties, but I see there is now a separate "time signature properties" dialog I can get by right clicking directly on the time signature. Neat, even if apparently a bit glitchy. As is often the case with the piano, sometimes it makes sense to treat it as one instrument that just happens to display on two staves, other times to see it as two staves that happen to belong to the same instrument. This is a case of the later, I'd say.