MuseScore 4.2 breath/pause not working correctly?
In 4.1, the breath/pause works correctly, inserting about 2s pause by default. In 4.2, the breath/pause mark seems to be ignored.
The old "recording" was posted in musescore.com at URL below, please refer to bar2.
https://musescore.com/user/12909/scores/12979540
I didnt publish the newer 4.2 version into musescore.com, but the same score is attached below. Notice that pause is not honored at the same bar2 in 4.2 during playback.
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Comments
It's not being completely ignored for me; it's still adding the correct amount of time, but the notes that are sounding when it reaches the pause don't stop, and are instead extended by the length of the pause.
It's definitely not working correctly, but it is adding a 2s pause, just not a 2s silence.
In reply to It's not being completely… by jscaranomusic
The note not-stopping issue was also recently reported and it seems a fix is on the way.
In reply to The note not-stopping issue… by Marc Sabatella
You mean https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/20557 ?
In reply to You mean https://github.com… by Jojo-Schmitz
I mean both :-)
In reply to I mean both :-) by Marc Sabatella
Hah, cheater ;-)
In reply to The note not-stopping issue… by Marc Sabatella
Ah, no, probably https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/15305
Breaths aren't supposed to add silence by default - but you can add a pause in the Properties panel. Caesuras do pause by default, but there is a bug (also in 4.1, but recently fixed for a coming update) where the caesura pause doesn't take effect until the next edit, or save/reload.
In reply to Breaths aren't supposed to… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the feedback. So when it's fixed, do I need to make any changes to my score?
In reply to Thanks for the feedback. So… by ac67
It'll most probably be fixed rather soon.
In reply to It'll most probably be fixed… by Jojo-Schmitz
Good evening, everyone! Does anyone know if the fix is already done and available? Thank you in advance
In reply to Good evening, everyone! Does… by mcmike00
Not yet, but see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/20982
In reply to Breaths aren't supposed to… by Marc Sabatella
Think about it. Unless you are one who inhales very loudly (a la P.D.Q. Bach's 1712 Overture), breaths should add silence by default. Even breath marks in bowing means the sound stops.
In reply to Think about it. Breaths… by Jason Hunsaker
They're not supposed to add any time. Sure, they'll shorten the previous note, but that doesn't add silence; it replaces some of that note's duration with silence. As opposed to the tick-shaped breath mark, which is often used to indicate a breath and a pause in choral music.
In reply to Think about it. Breaths… by Jason Hunsaker
In choral music it's comment to treat these breaths an actual pause in the time - basically a very short caesura. In instrumental music, it's more often meant to "steal" time from the preceding note. Ideally, someday MuseScore should support both behaviors.
In reply to In choral music it's comment… by Marc Sabatella
My understanding is that that's why choral music has moved towards the tick-style breath marks, and wind instruments continue to use the comma-style — because the way they use them is consistent with what the symbols actually mean.
Definitely agree that both should be supported, maybe with some sort of "cut off previous note" property in addition to the existing "pause" property.
Still waiting for a bracketed breath mark too, by the way.
In reply to My understanding is that… by jscaranomusic
There's stiill the idea of supporting negative values, to mean 'cut from prev note' and the current positiv values to mean 'pause'