how to delete an augmentation dot
Greetings
there are two ways to delete an augmentation dot and I'm not happy with wither of them.
one is to use ctrl-del thereby changing the measure's time signature.It can be corrected but it is annoying especially when there is more than one instrument and the augmentation dot is only in the first instrument. Changing the time signature affects all instruments for the corrected measure.
The second way is to delete the measure contents and rewrite it. This way time signature stays the same and no other instruments are affected. but is is not elegant.
Is there a smarter way to delete augmentation dot?
thank you
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The 3rd (and only reasonable way) is to select the note/rest and press .. It is a toggle, making a dotten note/rest undotted and an undotted one dotted
In reply to The 3rd is to select the… by Jojo-Schmitz
thank you. This is what I was looking for. simple and elegant
In reply to The 3rd is to select the… by Jojo-Schmitz
The 4th and equally reasonable way is to select the note/rest and press Shift+Q to change the duration to the one-dotted-less variant.
In reply to The 4th and equally… by jeetee
Ah, I keep forgetting that useful function
In reply to The 4th and equally… by jeetee
I prefer jojo-Schmitz solution but this one is also good to know.
thank you
Funny, the way I do it isn't listed yet. I don't think of it as deleting a dot, I think of it as changing duration. Doesn't matter what change I want to make, I normally do it the same way - with the shortcut for new desired duration. If I have a dotted quarter and I want to turn it into a dotted quarter, I simply press 5. Or 7 to turn it into a whole note, 3 to turn into a sixteenth, etc. A duration change is a duration change.
That said, I do also use Q/W and Shift+Q/W a bunch.
In reply to Funny, the way I do it isn't… by Marc Sabatella
That (changing duration) is what pressing the dot does too ;-)
With the advantage that it adds or removes the dot and I don't have to to think about the duration shortcuts (was it 4 for quarter? Or 5?)
I have a related question. I often try out dotted rhythm in some bars and then decide to remove it afterwards.
Dotting a note automatically halves the proceeding note/rest. That's really nice. But when removing the dots, the bar does not return to what it was. The proceeding note is still half time and a rest is inserted before it.
I am looking for a reasonable way to undo the dotting that also undoes the halving of proceeding notes- preferably for more bars at the same time. How can I best do that?
In reply to I have a related question. I… by troelspederse
It can't be done in a single operation in MuseScore to my knowledge.
For this change, I'd bet on using the Duration Editor Plugin so that removing the dot results in a shortened bar, but both notes are still adjacent. Then lengthening the next note will lengthen the bar again.
In reply to I have a related question. I… by troelspederse
To me it's usually simplest to just retype the notes in the proper rhythm.
Seems it would be quite possible to write an "undot" plugin that could find and rewrite all such rhythms. That could be useful at times!