Length of pauses
Hello, could someone please tell me how to adjust the length of pauses, denoted by the symbol "? I find the default time is about three seconds which is too long. It would be helpful when singing to set this time. Also I find that the default breath marks don't pause at all. Again any help would be much appreciated.
Kind regards
Jen
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You mean https://musescore.org/en/handbook/breaths-and-pauses, right? The values are hard coded and not changable in MuseScore 2.0, in the nighly builds though you can change them via Inspector, the defauls are 0sec for breaths and 2sec for caesuras
See also #114491: Remove "Pause" property from Inspector for breath mark or make it 'stealing' time from preceeding duration and #100856: Show pause property for breath and casesura
In reply to You mean by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks - yes I did mean caesuras or tram tracks. Sorry but what do you mean by nighly builds? I guess the inspector you are suggesting is a work around. Sorry I'm a newbie to musescore.
In reply to Thanks - yes I did mean by Jenwilson
No, the inspector is the regular way to change various elements' properties. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/inspector-and-object-properties.
Nightly builds are the previews of what will bevcome the next version, see https://musescore.org/en/download#Nightly-versions
A possible workaround to set these values in 2.0 is to save as mscx, open it with a plain text editor, search for the pause property of the caesura and change it. Nothing for the faint-hearted ;-)