Changing rhythmic figures
Hi, gang!!!
Why when I click on one note I can change the rhythmic value of that note (or chord), from a half to a quarter, for example, just clicking on the new value (from the rhythmic figures bar), but when I select more than one note (or chords), nothing happen? ???
How can I change the rhythmic values from more than one note (or chords) with just one action? ???
Greetings!!!
Juan
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It can't be done. Consider a measure with four quarter notes. You select the measure and try to change all the notes to half notes. What does that even mean? That's why it only works when one chord is selected.
In reply to It can't be done. Consider a by Isaac Weiss
Of course we may not to put more than some amount of values inside a measure, but... What about to change the duration by minor values? ???
Look it:
![Original.png]( "Original.png")
Why we couldn't to change into this:
![Changed.png]( "Changed.png")
To perform that change, today, we need to act over each chord. Imagine a large music piece, How many changes we have to do? A lot!!! Too much wasted time!!! Why not just one action? ???
BTW: It isn't the same issue, but it is about something I discover recently. Isn't it suppose that an accidental (sharp, flat, etc.) is valid to all the same notes inside a measure? Why MuseScore just recognize the accidental only to the first note on a measure? ???
Greetings
Juan
In reply to Of course we may not to put by jotape1960
The question to me is, how common is this action? I've written many hundreds of scores and can probably count one the fingers of one hand the number of times this has come up. Also, again, keep in mind the purpsoe of MuseScore is notation, not playback. The passage you show above should have just been written with staccato quarter notes. Musicians wouldn't be wanting to read either of the notations shown above, and there is absolutely no way there would be any differenc ein how they played it.
As for your accidental question, I don't understand it. MuseScore *does* understand that an accidental applies to an entire measure. If you are experiencing some specific corner case where this isn't working as it should, please start a new thread, post the score you are having trouble with, and the precise steps to reproduce the problem.
In reply to The question to me is, how by Marc Sabatella
Yeah!, You're right. It isn't a common action. But... it could be useful... for time to time.
BTW: The real issue here is about how to dominate the "Arpegio" command. I had to use those very short duration note to get the playback sound I wanted (a very cut guitar chord), because, if I used the normal quarter notes chord, the arpegio effect sounds not real and full "out of time". So... the real issue here is about the arpegio parameters. How can we change it? ???
Greetings!!!
Juan
In reply to Yeah!, You're right. It isn't by jotape1960
If it's about the sound, it's probably better to write the score the way a musician would expect it. Then export to MIDI and change the sound in a proper MIDI sequencer.
It can occassionally be interesting to take a passage in quarter notes and turn everything into half notes, thus doubling the length of everything - literally taking twice as many measures. There was a plugin for 1.3 that could sort of deal with this. Having a built-in facility to do this (and the reverse) is a definite possibility for 2.1.