Can I prevent measure stretching when repositioning notes?
Often times when I reposition notes horizontally via the inspector or just double clicking and using the arrow keys, MuseScore will stretch the measure and reposition all of the other notes in the measure. Is there a way to prevent this automatic stretching that occurs?
This is especially important because I've imported images underneath each measure that show a rhythmic notation grid that needs to line up with each note in the measure (see attached score).
I'm using MuseScore Version: 2.0.2 Revision: f51dc11 on Windows 7.
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Perhaps the simplest thing, if that is acceptable, click on the barline of the first measure and press enter.
(sorry, for now I do not have any better)
Note spacing in music is not linear - a quarter note does not take twice as much space as an eighth, etc. As far as I know, MuseScore doens't any settings that would change this. If it did, the question would be moot - you'd just set that option. That would make a good feature request; you should consider submitting it to the issue tracker.
However, I don't quite understand you question. If I move a note with the Inspector (specifically, moving the *chord*), other notes don't normally move. Which specific note are you trying to move, and which specific other note(s) are you seeing move in addition?
In reply to Note spacing in music is not by Marc Sabatella
Yeah I guess what I'm trying to do is alter Western notation to display the exact spatial relationships between each note based on their value. Obviously not something that is usually desired :(
This attached score is a better example of what I come across when trying to reposition notes. I have every note in every instrument lined up to the imported image except the one on the third line (the instrument labeled "Repinique"). When I move the three notes in the last half of the measure on this line (the "E" "A" of beat 2 and beat "3") it compresses the measure and moves all of the notes backward towards the beginning bar line, effectively displacing all of the notes I just finished positioning. Hope that made sense :)
As an added note this is not a problem I ran into in the original MuseScore.
In reply to Yeah I guess what I'm trying by TheBost
I do understand the desire for proportional spacing in educational settings especially. So it is something I would like to see some day.
Anyhow, I think what is happening is just that once you moved enough notes around, MuseScore realized there was no reason for the measure to remain as big as it was. So you would simply need to get MuseScore to keep the measure at the original size - add stretch, for example.
Previous versions of MuseScore were nowhere near as good at layout as the current version - where by "good" I meant, doing thingsd are actually appropriate in regular music. It just so happens that the things it did poorly may have ended up being advantageous in this special case.
In reply to I do understand the desire by Marc Sabatella
The charts I'm making do happen to be used for educational purposes (trying to give my community samba drumming group a way to ease into reading music).
Stretching the measure after lining everything up did the trick in this situation. Not so sure it will be the solution in others but I'll just have to get creative. I wish there was a way to "lock" the measure to make sure once it was at a certain size it didn't stretch.
In reply to The charts I'm making do by TheBost
If you don't nmeed another measure on the same system, you can instead add a horizontal frame to fill the width of the page. The size of the frame reamins fixed, so the measure won't have anywhere to go - it will remain whatever size it needs to be to take up the rest of the page width.