The dialog box displays "BPM" which I read beat per minute and I don't know any musician who would call "quarter" the beat in 6/8. MuseScore knows it perfectly well also, otherwise it wouldn't generates a tempo text with dotted quarter.
So:
-at minimum if the dialog box requires you to enter quarter speed it should very explicitly say so instead of calling that "beat" (I know I know internally MuseScore uses BPM to mean quarter)
-if that is what you call "by design", well ... what a poor design! This is how it feels for users: Well Musicians, you are in 6/8 ? Ok so we know that the tempo that makes sense for you is dotted quarter and that is what we will add to the score (good) but (bad) let's play a little game and ask you to enter speed in quarter note instead, just for the pleasure to annoy you...
I manged to dig up my related suggestion #291727: Improve tempo indication in Play Panel to reflect time signature to reduce the confusion arising from indicating tempos as QPM but labelled as BPM (which seems more satisfying to a programmer) rather than providing a more musical interpretation of BPM.
The trouble is that the internal terminology is not just internal, it is poking out and visible in the new score dialogue, the play panel and the inspector. We musicians need to be shielded from these internal workings.
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108 BPW (quarter beats per minute) are 72 dotted quarters per minute
In reply to 108 BPW (quarter beats per… by Jojo-Schmitz
MuseScore does not handle BPM well from a musician's perspective in many other places. See https://musescore.org/en/node/306588 for example.
In reply to 108 BPW (quarter beats per… by Jojo-Schmitz
As a mathematician I understand what you say.
However...
The dialog box displays "BPM" which I read beat per minute and I don't know any musician who would call "quarter" the beat in 6/8. MuseScore knows it perfectly well also, otherwise it wouldn't generates a tempo text with dotted quarter.
So:
-at minimum if the dialog box requires you to enter quarter speed it should very explicitly say so instead of calling that "beat" (I know I know internally MuseScore uses BPM to mean quarter)
-if that is what you call "by design", well ... what a poor design! This is how it feels for users: Well Musicians, you are in 6/8 ? Ok so we know that the tempo that makes sense for you is dotted quarter and that is what we will add to the score (good) but (bad) let's play a little game and ask you to enter speed in quarter note instead, just for the pleasure to annoy you...
In reply to As a mathematician I… by frfancha
I manged to dig up my related suggestion #291727: Improve tempo indication in Play Panel to reflect time signature to reduce the confusion arising from indicating tempos as QPM but labelled as BPM (which seems more satisfying to a programmer) rather than providing a more musical interpretation of BPM.
MIDI has BPM to really mean QPM. We're just sticking to their terminology, internally (and that won't even change) and externally
In reply to MIDI has BPM to really mean… by Jojo-Schmitz
The trouble is that the internal terminology is not just internal, it is poking out and visible in the new score dialogue, the play panel and the inspector. We musicians need to be shielded from these internal workings.
And that is what #291727: Improve tempo indication in Play Panel to reflect time signature is all about as far as I can tell
In reply to And that is what #291727:… by Jojo-Schmitz
Which is why I linked to it here.
I though so ;-)