Ritard playback automatically does 'a tempo' after ritard

• Nov 4, 2024 - 15:56

I think this is a bug/change from previous versions, but I am not sure. In version 4.4.3, in playback, during a ritard, the playback slows. I believe, in earlier versions, after the end of the ritard, playback would continue at the speed achieved by the end of the ritard. Now, an 'a tempo' happens after the ritard, even with no such tempo marking in the score. I think this is incorrect.


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In reply to by TheHutch

I boiled my example down to a few bars. It has something, I believe, to do with fermatas. The automatic 'a tempo' occurs in measure 5, after the fermata and caesura (which is after the ritard). The tempo remains slowed in measure 9, where the fermata was removed. But after the fermata in measure 11, tempo resumes back to original ('a tempo'). However, tempo does not resume in measure 13, where there is a fermata and just the caesura was removed. Measure 13 shows the fermata under the ritard, but it is a direct cut and paste from measure 5, just with the caesura removed. It looks like a chicken and egg thing, of determining what needs to happen first.

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