3 Beats in a 4 beat bar
I have recently been arranging Shostakovitch's Gadfly Romance for 5 flutes. Much of this was done on 0.9.6 Beta, and somehow it 'hid' the last beat of all (common-time) bars from bar 17. I cannot get this visible again in 0.9.6 (stable) on Ubuntu 9.10 and have lost a lot of data. I have tried dragging a new time signature across, fiddling with measure properties etc, but to no avail. Any ideas?
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I'm afraid you put at some time a 3/4 measure sign, and that you so unadvertently lost all the 4th beats of the subsequent 4/4 (I guess that common time is 4/4?).
I hope you have some backup. Or if the loss is not to old that you could regress by CTRL Z to some previous state, but I fear that closing a session looses the "history" used by CTRL Z to move backwards.
I experienced that when you have lost the 4th beat of a 4/4 measure by the erroneous use of a 3/4 signature you just can't get this beat back by putting the convenient signature.
In reply to I'm afraid you put at some by robert leleu
There appears to be a bug where if you add some bars mid score the time signature will still be displayed in the correct place but the number of beats in the bar will change in the wrong place (ie sometimes, maybe all the time, if you add bars in a piece that changes time signature, the written time signature and where the number of beats actually in the bar change no longer lines up). This was still the case when I tried this morning in version 0.9.6.
In reply to Not necessarily by Widmung
Widmung, can you give step-by-step instructions for reproducing the bug you are describing?
In reply to Widmung, can you give by David Bolton
Thanks for your reply David.
Hopefully doing this will demonstrate for you but if still unclear let me know and will send you some files.
1. Open a new score using 4/4 time signature.
2. Right click on 1st bar and select 'measure properties'. Leave nominal duration as 4/4 but change actual duration to 2/4.
3. Drag a 3/4 time signature into the second bar.
4. Have second bar selected and insert 8 new measures before the second bar. These measures will also become 4/4 nominal duration and 2/4 actual duration.
5. Drag a 4/4 time signature into the second bar.
6. Insert crotchets into all the bars and you will notice that the 4 bars before the 3/4 time signature only have room for 3 crotchets.
Hope this helps. Let me know if for some reason this does not replicate the problem for you!
In reply to Time signature bug by Widmung
Widmung, thank you for you clear instructions. I file the bug report in the issue tracker:
#6040: Incorrect measure duration after time change
In reply to I'm afraid you put at some by robert leleu
I also found I couldn't get the beat back. I shall write the notes in in pencil and get a friend to enter it into finale and exprt as MusicXML as I am sick of it by now... At least musescore is more stable now.
I started with a MIDI import if that makes any difference. It did some queer stuff with a few rhythms.