Shorten Playback of a Note?
I am writing an arrangement where I have a dotted 8th note/16th note pattern. I've put a umarcato over the dotted 8th note to indicate that it should be played short and accented, but on playback the note plays normal length. I've messed around with the offset and onset to try to get it to play back short, but I can't seem to figure out how.
Is there a way to make this playback correctly, or is this a limitation?
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I've noticed some "articulation" declarations at the top of instruments.xml. I've never tried playing with those, but maybe there's an answer there? I gather 2.0 has new features in the area of articulation playback.
In reply to I've noticed some by Marc Sabatella
I notice that adding staccato dots to notes does, appropriately, shorten their length during playback. But I don’t seem to hear much difference after adding tenuto marks.
Is there any way to adjust the duration of selected notes during playback? I used to use Cakewalk and, by adjusting the duration to perhaps 110% of normal, I could “fake” a slurred passage fairly convincingly. I notice that a lot of other parameters for notes are adjustable via Note Properties. Could duration adjustment be added? Or is there already a way to do this?
In reply to articulation by Bill Watkins
The best way is to save as MIDI and use a proper tool such as a MIDI sequencer to do the job.
If you really insist in using MuseScore, you can right click on a note and change the Offtime parameter. If you put it to "User", you can enter a number. It's a MIDI tick number that will be added to the offtime of the note. Midi tick for a quarter is 480. So if you have a quarter and change its offtime offset to User-480, the quarter will sound like a half note.
You can see the result of your edition with right click on the staff -> Piano roll editor. So far, the editor has no edition feature.
In note properties, the offset value looks broken. Changing it will work, but going back to note properties the value is 0 again.