Tied notes don't play when you change their pitch

• Mar 19, 2012 - 04:02

As stated in the topic title: when changing tied notes with up and down arrows, you don't hear their pitch.

I'm running version 1.2 on OSX.

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• Mar 19, 2012 - 14:29

It's not hard to work around but yes, it is inconvenient for me. When transcribing I rely for about 50% on what I hear and 50% on knowledge. So it's pretty important to me I get audible feedback about what I'm doing.

Besides, it's obviously a bug since all other notes do play back when you change their pitch, so I thought I'd let the developers know.

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• Mar 19, 2012 - 15:13

I keep finding it an annoyance as well. I work pretty quickly, not always looking at the screen, and I do rely on the audible feedback to help me be sure I am entering what I think I am entering. I alaways experience a bit of a disconnect when I cursor a tied note and don't hear that feedback, and I have to slow down and look more carefully to make sure I am getting it right. I can see why maybe cursoring a whole passage consisting of several notes wouldn't try to play back, but as I constantly remind my theory students when we work on retrograde, a tie is just one single note that happens to be written using two heads and two stems and a line between them. There is no reason I can see why it shouldn't play as you cursor if other single notes do.

I suppose this was more of an issue for me in 1.1 where there was a serious bug in how accidentals behaved after a tie across a barline, and audible feedback was especially to make sure I had worked around this correctly. In 1.2, I can finally trust accidentals to behave correctly more, I don't rely on the playback quite so much. Still, sometimes I find myself leaving note entry mode and clicking the note just to be sure.

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