editing durations
so Ive tried to upload an example of what I want to do but find VERY difficult. Meas 8 has eight 1/8 notes.
I want to hear it beginning with two 1/4's, and the remaining 4/8 spread over the following six notes in some fashion (yet to be tried).
and I'd like to try 10 different samples in 2 minutes.
BlackBryRag-2.mscz
suggestions appreciated.
Comments
Generally, it's going to be fastest to simply re-enter the sequence with the desired rhythm. You could enter 10 such sequences in under two minutes easy, nd probably easier than any method that involved trying to morph the original into something else 10 times.
In reply to Generally, it's going to be by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc - I was afraid of this answer. That's why in a much earlier post I asked if there was a way to turn off the "auto filling of a measure w/r to time signature." (I was told that Finale and/or Sib.... can do that - I don't have personal experience there.)
I'm a BIG proponent of dragNdrop (to anywhere) and right-click to edit any&all properties of the note without any "auto fix up mechanism."
Sigh - that isn't MuseScore.
In reply to Thanks Marc - I was afraid of by dpenny
You're still thinking of it in a way that that makes it seem more complicated than it is, and causes you to fight it rather than work with it. Don't think of MuseScore as doing "auto filling". Think of it as *keeping the note you entered right you you put them*. If you enter a note on beat 4, it stays on beat four despite changes you make earlier in the measure. In other words, MsueScore is not *auto fixing" anything. It is instead keeping everything exactly as you entered it. If you are thinking it is automatically doing something, then you arne't udnerstanding how it is working, and that is why its behavior keeps seeming surprising, but the moment you "get" how it works, it all becomes incredibly simple.
Anyhow, yes, Finale does work differently, but it isn't better, and it actually turns out to be less efficient in most cases like this. That's because when you change the duration of a single note, it *does* move some numebr of subsequent notes ealrier or later in time to compensate - thus "auto fixing" their start positions - but it's almost never the right number of notes that moves, and it never knwos what to do with the notes at the end of the measure, so you are constantly having to fix up the things it guessed wrong on. Finale is no more capable of reading minds than MuseScore is, after all.
I don't see what drag & drop has to do with anything here. It's not really an efficient way of doing anything - double click is the much faster way of entering elements from a palette in MuseScore or pretty much any other program - but drag & drop *does* work to add palette items. I don't understand your comment about right click, either. Right click menus can bring up dialog boxes, but that's not an efficient way of editing note properties - the Inspector is more efficient because it can stay up at all times and thus allow multiple operations on multiple selections without needing to constantly open and close dialogs via a right click menu.