Flip the Swing Rhythm
Is there a way to flip the swing rhythms? It seems that you can only do long-short swings and not short-long. This would be a great feature to add!
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You could tweak the swing ratio.
But for some reason the values are restricted to 50-99%, you'd need some 40%
Might make up for a feature request at https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/new/choose
In reply to You could tweak the swing… by Jojo-Schmitz
P.S. 3.6.2 seems to have the same restriction, but 3.7 does not:
In reply to P.S. 3.6.2 seems to have the… by worldwideweary
Funny, I don't recall having changed that
Does Mu4 allow that too?
In reply to Funny, I don't recall having… by Jojo-Schmitz
Neither do I, but a quick history check reveals:
3839cb120a ("Fix #333867: Allow "reverse" swing", 2022-07-31),
and it looks there to have been a minimum switch from 50 to 1.
@ https://musescore.org/en/node/333867 Marc mentions: "No such restriction on the swing spin box exists in MuseScore 4.", ...so maybe we be trippin'?
In reply to Neither do I, but I did a… by worldwideweary
So I did add it. Guess I'm getting old...
But then again is 3.7 more than 1050 commits ahead or 3.6.2 meanwhile
And I didn't check Mu4 yet
In reply to So I did add it. Guess I'm… by Jojo-Schmitz
So cool!
Sometimes I hear a student accidentally inverting their swing, like to the 40% setting that MS3.7 allows. Now, upon reading this thread, I have a way to demonstrate the effect for them. I can select a piece the student capably plays with a "proper" 60% swing and then exemplify inverted swing by setting the piece to, i.e. ~ 40% swing.
Naturally I'd like to see < 50% swing values allowed in MS4.
In reply to So cool! Sometimes I hear… by scorster
It is allowed in Mu4, I just checked, down to 25% (and up to 99%)
In reply to It is allowed on Mu4, I just… by Jojo-Schmitz
I thought I had verified that it was NOT present in 4. I was wrong.
But man, playing a tune that one expects to be swung normally at 25% swing ratio sounds FREAKING weird!!!
I would not particularly call a short-long combination "swing". Nonetheless, the (mostly!) French style called notes inégales of the 16th through 19th Centuries definitely did use the short-long combination [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_in%C3%A9gales].
It seems quite arbitrary that the "Swing" adjustment is only from 50%-99% and it seems quite likely that adding the possibility of 1%-49% would be a simple matter of changing the allowable value. The calculation for our computers to play it should be identical whether it's 1%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 99%.