New score dialog tempo 108 in 6/8 generates Tempo dotted 1/4 = 72 instead of 108

• Dec 1, 2020 - 09:29
Reported version
3.5
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project

Title says it all ... New score dialog tempo 108 in 6/8 generates Tempo dotted 1/4 = 72 instead of 108


Comments

In reply to 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...