measure numbering confusion
Can someone help me understand again how measure numbering works. I know that every measure has an internal number used for the rendering and playback data structures. But there is also measure number which is displayed at the beginning of each line. This is subject to changes such as "Done number this measure" etc. When I use CMD-F to go to a measure by number, I think it takes me to measure by internal number, rather than the measure my displayed number.
I can see why you might want one feature, and also why you might want the other.
That being said the CMD-F goto is pretty confusing anyway, because you have to prepend the number by p to goto a page, and r to go to a rehearsal mark. it would be great if the Goto widget had selection fields there the user could say goto page/rehearsal mark/internal measure number/displayed measure number.
Also once I've successfully gone to a measure by rehearsal mark or measure number or whatever, then pressed play, the display moves ahead correctly. But later on when I press Stop, how am I supposed to go back to the same place that is still displayed in the Goto type-in field? The only way I can figure is to erase the text and re-type it. There's no go-again button.
Any comments?
Comments
As: https://musescore.org/en/node/286833 ?
Your understanding about numbering is correct. Except to be clear, you don't actually need the "r" for rehearsal marks that are letters, as they normally are.
For the repeated playback from the same spot, consider using the loop feature.
Also see View / Timeline which is a far more sophisticated interface for navigation by measure, rehearsal mark, and much more.
In reply to Your understanding about… by Marc Sabatella
Btw, I can't get the loop feature in the play panel to work in the newest download release.
In reply to Btw, I can't get the loop… by jim.newton.562
In what way? It works fine for me. Can you attach a score and give precise steps to reproduce the problem?
In reply to In what way? It works fine… by Marc Sabatella
hmm. it seems to work fine for me now as well. It may have just been in a weird state. If it happens again I'll try to build a test case. I know it was on a huge score I had imported from MIDI. More than that I don't remember.
In reply to Your understanding about… by Marc Sabatella
Hi, Marc!!!
BTW: Can we change the way of look of the standard lower activity bar where the real time playback bar and beats are showed? ??? I'm talking about to enlarge those numbers and to put they on another place.
Can we? How? ???
In reply to Hi, Marc!!! BTW: Can we… by jotape1960
I assume you mean the Status bar. No way to customize it current except to change the overall font size in Edit / Preferences
In reply to I assume you mean the Status… by Marc Sabatella
Oh!!! I see!!! Maybe it should be a future capability? ???
In reply to Hi, Marc!!! BTW: Can we… by jotape1960
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems the MIDI import does exactly the same thing regardless of how I set the quantization. I'm setting the quantization for Timpany to 1/8th which is ridiculously low, and it is still importing as 64th notes and 9-uplets of 64th notes.
Am I supposed to be able to press Apply on that dialog and see the notes recalculated?
In reply to Maybe I'm doing something… by jim.newton.562
You do need to click apply to see the changes take effect.
In reply to You do need to click apply… by mike320
When I select eight for timpani and press apply, am I supposed to still see the 64th notes in the timpani line as I do?
In reply to When I select eight for… by jim.newton.562
The quantization affects the start / end time for notes, so you shouldn't see something that could otherwise have been rounded to an eighth notated instead as a sixty-fourth rest followed by a triple-dotted sixty-fourth or whatever. But, if you have 8 notes in the space of half a beat, there is nothing for MuseScore to call but sixty-fourths.
In reply to The quantization affects the… by Marc Sabatella
My suspicion is this is supposed to be a drum roll on the timpani. I suspect that recognizing glissando and roll from Midi are not supported by Midi-in
In reply to My suspicion is this is… by jim.newton.562
Correct, we don't do anything special to recognize and simplify ornaments.
In reply to Correct, we don't do… by Marc Sabatella
I could be wrong but... It seems to me it is a simple very fast trill. As a human cannot to play it with the machine precission, then the MIDI "translator" routine did... Closest thing it could do!!!
Just my opinion.
In reply to Maybe I'm doing something… by jim.newton.562
For the timpani, the problem is likely that you are seeing the midi rendering of the roll, so it is not changing it, for example, to a half note with a tremolo bar on it.