Cut-Time Tuplets above value of 5
I am trying to create an arrangement of a piece within Musescore. The piece is in cut time and has septuplets, octuplets, and nonuplets of eighth notes for each half note. I have specified the time signature as cut-time already, yet when I split the half note into an octuplet or one of the other given tuplets, it automatically sets the notes to sixteenth's. How can I create the correct version of an octuplet with eighth notes for a half note beat? I require two sex-nonuplets per measure, each tuplet filling out the the length of one half note. As this is cut time, they should be eight notes tuplets for the given half note length.
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Use custom tuplets, 8 resp. 9 in the space of 4, for some reason an 8-let is 8 in the space of 8, a 9-let 9 in the space of 8, while a 7-let is 7 in the space of 4.
In reply to Use custom tuplets, 8 resp… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you! I did not see this feature. This helps.
For the record, the current defaults are not incorrect nor are your preferences more correct, there is just a subjective decision to make about which note value to use any time there are septuplets etc. The most common and most recommended method is to always "round down", choosing a note value that adds to be equal to or greater than the total duration. So for a half note total duration - regardless of time signature, actually - dividing into 4, 5, 6, or 7 should be notated as eighths; dividing into 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15 should produce sixteenths. But there are those editors who prefer to the round to the "closer" value, so 5 is eighths but 7 is sixteenths. That's probably the minority view but it's still a respectable minority.