Glissando's not functioning properly as I've seen before.

• Jan 23, 2024 - 01:44

I've looked up this everywhere yet I still can't seem to make a glissando go over multiple notes or measures, I can't even insert one unless I have two notes a single beat apart. I've seen photos and responses to people with glissandos that stretch over an entire measure yet I can barely even insert one. Am I doing something wrong?

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"I can't even insert [a glissando] unless I have two notes a single beat apart."
1. I don't think that a glissando is notated with rests between the start note and the end note.
See Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glissando:
Glissando_Wikipedia.png

  1. Playback of glissandi in MS4 is still a bit of a "work in progress". So you may have to write out the glissando in full (i.e. in semiquavers), as suggested in the Wikipedia article.

  2. Are you aware that in the Properties panel there are several Style options in the Playback tab? "Portamento" is probably your best option:
    MS4_Glissando_styles.png

In reply to by DanielR

…except it doesn’t play with muse sounds.
Maybe he is suggesting that you have notes a few measures apart which you want to connect, possibly with some smaller notes in between for reference. For that, use playing but hidden glissandos between the individual notes and one long autoplace-disabled glissando that does not play between the first and last.

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