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• May 10, 2010 - 15:17

First things first - congratulations to all concerned for 0.9.6 RC1. Brilliant, thanks a lot.

Is there a way to switch between straight quavers and swing quavers during playback ?

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• May 10, 2010 - 18:35

RC1 stands for Release Candidate 1.
The Release Candidate (RC) is the test release before the final one. In case RC1 has some critical bugs, there will be another RC2 until we are certain that there are no critical issues anymore. Then we can release the final 0.9.6 version.

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• May 10, 2010 - 18:37

I despair - it seems that I haven't explained myself properly again !!!!!

I know about the display panel which allows the selection of staraight, swing or shuffle quavers, but that sets the selection for the whole score. What I want to do is have a section of the score played back in straight quavers, then a section of the score played in swing quavers, then the another section played back in in straight quavers again, then change again to swing quavers.

I can't find a way to tell the score to switch between straight and swing quavers at a certain meaure during playback, then switch back to straight quavers at a later measure during playback.

I hope this helps to clarify my query.

Thanks

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• May 11, 2010 - 08:56

OK thanks
It's suggested in the link above that it's rare to want to switch between straight and swing 8ths in a score. I'm afraid I don't agree. Quite a lot of the arranging I do involves medleys of tunes of various artists and these medleys frequently involve some tunes with straight 8ths and some with swing 8ths. In fact I'm working on one now, hence the query.

The norm should surely be that wherever MuseScore offers a tempo selection facility a straight/swing 8th selection facilitly should accompany it. I'm no software developer, (as may be obvious), but would it be too difficult to access the straight/swing/shuffle algorithm from the Create/Text/Tempo window as well as from the Play Panel? That's all that would be required.

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• May 12, 2010 - 00:04

For the record the discussion does not say that a switch between straight and swing within a piece is rare. What it does say is "As far a priorities: (1) whole score settings for swing (2) measure-by-measure settings for swing (3) part-by-part settings for swing." Only the last one is called rare.

As a result of the discussion the first priority was implemented and will be released with version 0.9.6. The second and third priorities may be implemented at a later date.

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• Jun 21, 2014 - 09:28

For a quite tricky workaround to create some quavers with swing feel to it. I will quote a post by DIM, (the original post can be found here:

Probably, you have to right click on each swung note individually
and change the ontime and offtime values suggestted by the user DIM in this post (see below)

http://musescore.org/en/node/9248#comment-94999

Subject: Ontime and offtime for 8'th note triplet feel

Posted by DIM on February 10, 2014 -8:05am
To make 8'th notes swing (in playback mode online) you can do the following. A quarter note is 100%. Two straight eight-notes is 50% each. But a swing-feel requires the first note to be around 2/3 and the latter 1/3. You can do it like this: Set the first 8'th note like this:

ontime offset type: offset
ontime offset: 0%
offtime offset type: offset
offtime: 66%

And the second 8'th like this:

ontime offset type: offset
ontime offset: 34%
offtime offset type: offset
offtime: -66%

It is very important to change the second 8'th note end-length to minus 66%, as the last triplet-feel 8'th note will "clip" the sound of the next-coming note in playback mode. It is a little tricky, but it works. .

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• May 12, 2010 - 09:13

You're quite right. I can understand only the full score priority being implemented inititally, it's certainly the most important one, but hopefully P2 will come along in due course.

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