Triple dot!

• May 11, 2015 - 17:18

I can't create a triple dot in MuseScore 2.0.1
The future, MuseScore update?
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• Apr 28, 2016 - 08:05

Note that MuseScore supports triple and quadruple dots: but the graphical interface is unable to insert them.
To insert a triple dot in a score:
1) create a new score with a single measure;
2) insert the first note (for example, a quarter note) with a DOUBLE dot;
3) insert two notes to obtain a duration double of the first note (for example, two thirty-second notes);
4) save as Uncompressed MuseScore format (*.mscx) - for example, as "dot.mscx";
5) open "dot.mscx" with Notepad (Windows) or gedit (Linux) or similar porograms, to view and change the file as text;
6) search for "2", and change it in "3";
7) delete the 7 lines from "" to "" just AFTER the "" that follows "3";
8) save the changed file;
9) Open it In MuseScore.

Now you have a real triple dotted note, and you can copy and past it, if you need.
Similarly you can obtain a quadruple dotted note.

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• Apr 28, 2016 - 08:17

For triple dot the internal infrastucture indeed exists, just no UI for it (with the exception of a button in Inspector) For quadruple dots this does not exist, and bad things may happen if you force them your way.
And better don't use triple dots on very short notes. The shorted Duration you can use a single dot with is a 64th, the shortes for a double dot is 32nd, so the shortest for triple dot would be 16th (and for quadruple dot would be eight), just because of the remainder ending up as the shortest duration we current support.

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• Jul 31, 2016 - 21:42

I successfully obtained a real triple-dotted note.

It is strange that 2.0.3 supports triple dots but has no button on the tool bar. The evidence for this support appears at the bottom of the inspector panel when a note has been selected -- there is indeed a "Dot3" button!

More important though, is that 2.0.3 does not support quadruple-dotted notes. I tried many times to follow a procedure similar to the one posted by JohannesBrahms on April 28, 2016 - 7:05am. The bottom of the inspector panel does not have a "Dot4" button.

Four dots occur in Verdi's Requiem Rex Tremendae for the chorus sopranos, altos and tenors, measure 358.

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• Jul 31, 2016 - 23:14

I myself, unless musescore 3 will have buttons on the regular toolbar for triple and quadruple dotted notes, would instead do it like this:

Triple dot = Double dot, tie, extra length
Quadruple dot = double dot, tie, extra length(but this time in a dotted or double dotted form

This is perfectly fine and helps avoid problems with using triple and quadruple dots on short notes. With 128th notes in there, I can easily double dot a 32nd and add whatever else I need(which might be up to a 128th note) with a tie and get the same result in a much easier way.

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• May 21, 2017 - 12:53

The easiest way to get a triple dot is to make a shortcut for it and user that. There is an undefined shortcut in preferences.

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