Swing / shuffle menu doesn't appear in Play Panel

• Dec 8, 2012 - 22:51
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

Hi,

I can't find the drop down menu in the Play panel to switch playback to swing or shuffle. Consequently everything plays back straight.

Using nightly build b4d735f under Windows 7.

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Comments

• Oct 21, 2013 - 18:38

Swing Playback

The playback in swing or shuffle feeling is quiet important and should be implemented back
in MuseScore 2.0. But with the 1.x solution to control it in the play panel we are handicapped because we have no alternative to change e.g. the swing back to straight feeling during the piece.

Therefore I suggest connecting this feature with tempo text – always belonging to a bar - to change as often as it’s nessecary. In my Finale 2010 the swing behavior is under control of on an entry which can be set between 0 (straight) and 150 (dotted note). So the playback is changeable and more or less swinging.
I believe that the swing behaviour affects only the main beat in a bar – e.g. in a 4/4 only the 8th and not the 16th ! But I’m not sure about the length (time duration) of 8th and 4th syncopations in swing. Typically the 8th should be as long or even longer as th 4th.

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