Repeat Signs Do Not Work
All the repeat signs in the repeats pallette do not work.... this also includes the start and end repeats in the barline pallette...I do not know what is wrong except that I had to reinstall Musescore after performing a system restore 2 days ago? can anyone help in this matter please? The play Repeats button is on.
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As usual, posting a sample score and steps to reproduce would be needed to help sort out what is going on. In general, ordinary repeats sign (in the barlines palette) definitely *do* work. Measure repeat symbols (in the repeats palette) don't.
In reply to As usual, posting a sample by Marc Sabatella
A sample score would Definitely Help...sorry I just plump forgot
In reply to A sample score would by Rita Lions
There are no repeats barlines in your score. The repeat measure sign does not work (read: playback) in MuseScore (not in 1.2 at least, in 2.0 they will playback).
In reply to There are no repeats barlines by Jojo-Schmitz
I cannot get the attached score to play the repeat and second-time bars back correctly - after bar 104 (the end of the 32 empty bars) playback continues with bar 105 to the end and then finishes; I need a repeat from bar 1 to bar 68 then jump to bar 105 (the start of the second time bars) to finish.
Any help would be appreciated.
In reply to I cannot get the attached by Mac B
Any ideas?
In reply to Any ideas? by Mac B
The problem seems to be that the measure with the closing repeat has its repeat count set to to 1 in Measure Properties. To see this, turn off the multimeasure rests and right click the last measure. My guess is the related to the specific order in which you did things, but I quick test doesn't seem to reproduce this problem in a score I create from scratch. So if you can remember how the score got into this state, that would help.
In reply to The problem seems to be that by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc
I've done as you suggest and seen that the repeat count is indeed set at 1 - so what should it be set at to give me a single repeat from bar 104, skipping from bar 68 to bar 105 the second time?
In reply to Thanks Marc I've done as you by Mac B
2. See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/repeat-0#playback and https://musescore.org/en/handbook/measure-operations-0#repeat-count
In reply to Thanks Marc I've done as you by Mac B
And normally, that is the default. So if you did not deliberately change it to 1 for some reason, there may be a bug somewhere that caused it to change on its own. But I was not able to reproduce any such case myself.
In reply to And normally, that is the by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc
I'm afraid I haven't yet understood this.
The repeat count at bar 104 is set to 1, so I assume that the repeat only occurs once, skipping the
1st time bars in favour of the 2nd time bars on the repeat. I don't understand why this does not happen; playback carries on to bar 105 and continues to the end of the score, including the 2nd time bars, and finishes.
Sorry to be so slow on the uptake.
In reply to Thanks Marc I'm afraid I by Mac B
A repeat count of 1 basics means, no repeat at all - so the passage is *played* once. A repeat count of 2 (the default) means the repeat is taken once - so the passage is *played* twice.
In reply to A repeat count of 1 basics by Marc Sabatella
Thanks once again Marc - changing the repeat count to 2 did the trick.
I must say, the description in the handbook is misleading, since it doesn't explain that a setting of 2 only gives 1 repeat!
"In the last measure of a repeat you can set repeat counts to define the number of played repeats".
As you point out, the number refers to the number of times played, not the number of repeats.
In reply to Thanks once again Marc - by Mac B
FWIW, this same discussion happens every time musicians ever discuss the number of times to do something. If during a rehearsal I say to repeat the last 4 bars twice, people are always confused about whether that means two times *total* (meaning one actual repeat) or three times total (two actual repeats). It's just an inherent limitation of the language. Anyhow, the point is, you should never need to mess with the setting normally unbless you are creating a repeat that is something *other* than the standard.
In reply to FWIW, this same discussion by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc
I think most English speakers (or do I mean English English speakers) understand a single repeat to mean "play it once and then play it once again"; thus, logically, a repeat count of 1 would give that result, whereas a repeat count of 2 would mean "play it once and then play it again twice".
Of course, once we know how Musescore uses the repeat count (as I now do, thanks to you) there is no problem.
Best regards
Mac
In reply to Thanks Marc I think most by Mac B
Maybe you do mean English Enligh. In America, I see this confusion happen virtually every time the subject comes up, not regarding MuseScore, but just in the ordinary course of performance or rehearsal.