Tied notes sometimes don't play back at all (depending on how they're entered)
I am noticing an inconsistency in the behavior of tied notes.
So this mainly happens when editing existing notes and trying to add a tied note. This is roughly what happens to me most of the time:
- I have two quarter notes on beat 1 & 2 and a quarter rest on beat 3 and I want to add a tied note on beat 3. (The example is trivial.)
- I put the cursor on beat 3 and press +, nothing happens
- I put the cursor on beat 2 and press +, the note on beat 2 sounds, visually noting happens
- I press + again, a tied note on beat 3 appears and it sounds
Now when I play back this bar, beat 2 and 3 are completely silent. I'm assuming because MS registered beat 2 as a tied note. (Since I pressed + on beat 2). But there is no tie shown from beat 1 to beat 2 and they are not playing back as tied notes. So the inconsistency is that beat 2 isn't triggering because it's behaving as the second part of a tied note, but beat 1 isn't prolonged because it is not marked as a tied note.
To make this behavior consistent I think you should be able to put your cursor anywhere, and pressing + would add a tied note to the previous note.
(BTW the workaround is re-entering the note on beat 2 and then press +. Then all works as expected.)
Comments
Could you post a sample file and specific steps to reproduce? I am not quite understanding what you are describing, starting with step 1 - like, are you in note entry mode or not, and how did the cursor *get* to beat 3 - nor do I know how you are moving the cursor in the subsequent steps (eg, cursor keys, leaving note entry, clicking, and re-entering).
I find that while in note entry mode, pressing + to enter a tie only works if pressed immediately after entering a note, not if you subsequently move the cursor or leave then re-enter note entry mode. That much has been discussed here and is known (I think there may already be an issue submitted., but am not sure). But I've never seen a case where this leads to something not playing correctly once it *is* entered. Seems like it must be tied to the specifc series of steps you are describing, but more detail would help.
In reply to Could you post a sample file by Marc Sabatella
Here's the sample file and to me it seems like there is no other way to not replicate this then pressing + to enter a tie immediately after entering a note.
bar 1:
in note entry press c, c, 0, c
Esc to leave note entry
Click the note on beat 2
N to enter note entry
Press + twice
bar 2:
in note entry press c, c, 0, c
press left twice
press + twice
bar 3:
in note entry press c, c, 0, c
press left twice
Esc to leave note entry
N to enter note entry
press + twice
None of the notes on beat 2 and 3 play back for me.
In reply to Could you post a sample file by Marc Sabatella
This seems to be a temporary problem. After saving, closing and opening the file the notes play back fine.
BTW in all cases it's enough to press + only once. The second just adds a tied note as it should. It's the first one that causes the bug. And reopening the file fixes it every time.