TRIPLETS!!!
Thank you so much for the software, it's really pretty and really easy to use.
A feature that is really lacking is triplet notes. Please release a patch with triplets, I really need them.
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I just found them, and I feel like an idiot. thanks :)
but why are triplets always sixteenths? I can't seem to be able to create eight note and quarter note triplets
In reply to but why are triplets always by Boris_
Triplets can be anything you wan tthem to be; you just have to select the total length of the triplet before creating them. See the entry for triplets in the handbook:
http://musescore.org/en/handbook/tuplet
In reply to but why are triplets always by Boris_
As Marc said, you really need to read the manual on how to do triplets well. Basically, you select a note (or rest) and the triplet command will produce triplets of half the note value selected. So a quarter note produces eighth triplets, a half note will produce quarter note triplets, etc. It takes some getting used to.
In reply to Triplets by schepers
yea, i already figured it out -.- didn't know there was a manual
HOW TO WRITE TRIPLETS:
A “quarter” note will produce 3 “eight” note triplets; a “half’ note will produce 3 “quarter” note triplets. So, before writing the triplet choose the right value note or rest where the triplet will start. Once it is highlighted, press “Ctrl” plus the number “3”. An upper bracket with the number 3 will appear on top, and under it three “eight” rest. Enter now the three “eight” notes under each “eight” rest.
In reply to HOW TO WRITE TRIPLETS:… by myoleman
Gratulation, you just responded to a post that is 7 years old ;-)
In reply to Gratulation, you just… by Jojo-Schmitz
I was 15 when I posted that thread and I'm still signed up for email notifications it seems. Always strange to find comments from when I was younger on things I've completely forgotten about.
https://xkcd.com/979/
Funny how many times I've googled something and found some forum result of someone with the exact same problem but they dont comment the solution to their problem after they find it, and yet I was one of those people. This thread seems to be the first google result for "musescore triplets", so a bump is totally reasonable.
Nice to see musescore still going, I remember liking it. Too bad I can't edit my original comment to be more helpful.
In reply to I was 15 when I posted that… by Boris_
It doesn't matter how old some tip is. When you need an answer, you need an answer. It's a good thing to contribute whatever solutions you find to a problem. Somebody out there might need it. Like me. I never check the date on a tip. It doesn't matter. If it works, it works. This program is very complicated and I can use all the help I can find.
In reply to It doesn't matter how old… by myoleman
The only problem with referring to a 7 year old post is that the version back then was 1.x while today MuseScore is on version 2.1 (very soon to release 2.2). There are features to make notation much easier in versions 2.x and a few features that have been abandoned from 1.x.
In reply to The only problem with… by mike320
Fortunately nothing about triplets has been changes in the meantime. But also the handbook does nowadays goes into the details of entering triplets...
In reply to The only problem with… by mike320
Anyway, this is the first comment or question you find whenever you google "triplets", so whoever is looking into it (like I was) will find the answer right here. The Manual is too long to read it all, and besides, you rarely need things like "triplets" or brackets or grace notes, etc. But when you do, it's faster to just google the question and find whatever solution have been posted out there. At least that's what I always do.
In reply to Anyway, this is the first… by myoleman
The tuplets are one of essential features of a scorewriter that are necessary for any contemporary classical composer. The music of nowadays makes the broad usage of tuplets marked not only by a single digit, but, more often than not, by a ratio (5:3, 7:4 etc.) For example, look at scores of Pierre Boulez or Iannis Xenakis available in some score-videos of their works at YouTube. - Why are ratio tuplets needed? - might ask one. Answer: - single-digit tuplets are usable when a SINGLE duration is substituted by a tuplet. But if the duration isn't single, but COMBINED (like in a guarter tied with following sixteenth that might be not reduced to a single one), one cannot use a tuplet substituting it marked by single digit - only with ratios like 3:5, 4:5, 7:5 etc. etc. So, if a scorewriter doesn't have the ratio option for making tuplets, it remains underdeveloped and, in spite of all its other really essential and important advantages over commercially available Sibelius and Finale, still might not be in broader use by advanced composers of today.
I might also add that, as of now, no scorewriter but Finale has the option of continuing tuplet over barline if it is not fitting the reminding rhythm value before that barline, but means COMBINED duration divided by the barline. I wish MuseScore developers to include this very essential option into next version of the soft. And, besides of tuplet subject, include an option of instant, on the fly change 5-lines staff into 4,3,2,1,0-line ones if it is
deemed necessary for an user.
In reply to The tuplets are one of… by Leonid Hrabovsky
To be clear, MuseScore does allow ratios to be used, not sure if you were under the impression they weren't. See the Inspector upon selecting a tuplet for the options to control its appearance.
Tuplets over barlines are indeed more problematic, but can sometimes be "faked" reasonably effectively in a number of ways (eg, combining the bars and adding a fake barline, or building the tuplet then moving the notes around manually). Definitely room for improvement though.
Meanwhile, you'll be happy to hear that changing staff properties such as number of staff lines mid-score is already implemented for the next major release, MuseScore 3.
In reply to The tuplets are one of… by Leonid Hrabovsky
Sorry, I was wrong about ratio marking of tuplets - it IS included into system, but simply isn't visible at the first glance, but is hidden within the menu Tuplet Properties. But my proposal about making possible tuplets over combined (tied) durations and these over barline remains in effect.
In reply to Sorry, I was wrong about… by Leonid Hrabovsky
Mark, thank you for comment.
I have to admit I didn't see that ratio markings are possible, for it is hidden within the menu Tuplet Properties. I may only desire the digits and bracket might be more "bold", that is more easily red.
Also thank you for advising me how to create a tuplet over barline.
In reply to Mark, thank you for comment… by Leonid Hrabovsky
Tuplet Properties? Are you perhaps using an extremely old version of MuseScore? There is no such dialog in current versions (eg. 2.2.1) - it's all in plain view in in the Inspector.
As for the font used, that is easily controllable via Style / Text / Tuplet. Thickness of line appears to not be controllable in current versions, but will be in MuseScore 3.
In reply to Mark, thank you for comment… by Leonid Hrabovsky
Suddenly - and unexpectedly - I've found in node 260646 the advise how to create these non-standard tuplets. But do limitations still exist - for instance, if a different tuplet is to be created in other voice/staff, it may wreck havoc into the tuplet already made, or maybe somehow brake down the typing-in process?
In reply to Suddenly - and unexpectedly … by Leonid Hrabovsky
That shouldn't be the case. If you experience a problem, please start a new thread and give describe the nature of the problem in detail.
In reply to Suddenly - and unexpectedly … by Leonid Hrabovsky
If you make one of these non standard tuplets that cross a bar line and there are more than one instrument, you will need to insert bar lines in all of the other instruments because the same measures are joined in every instrument. If there is an instrument in the middle of a multi measure rest when you do this, you will need add a measure to the measure count in the measure properties to make up for the now missing measure. I'm not 100% sure it will make the number of measures correct in a multi measure rest. If this does not work, you will instead need to find a convenient spot in the multi measure rest to split another measure and hide the extra bar line in the other instruments.