Different Tempos Simultaneously
I'm arranging a piece that requires an instrument to play at a different tempo than other instruments at the same time. For example, a flute needs to play at tempo 100 for X amount of measures while a clarinet has to play at tempo 150. The flute switches back to tempo 150 with the clarinet after X amount of measures. Is there a feature/trick that allows me to do this (especially in playback)? Thanks for the help!
Piece where problem occurs: https://musescore.com/user/9109816/scores/3869691
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I don't think the playback is possible but you can enter the indication for the musicians
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/staff-and-system-text
I don't see the problem in https://musescore.com/user/9109816/scores/3869691
Is there a "greatest common divisor" between the speeds ? Anyhow it should not be smaller than the internal tick of musescore
see "segments" in https://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/references/musescore-inter…
mathematically playing with segments is the nearest you can approach....
In reply to I don't see the problem in by robert leleu
Ciao Robert, I discover this page only today (probably my fault) and I wonder if it would be useful to enable translation (although I do not know how and when I can help).
In reply to Ciao Robert, I discover this by Shoichi
None of the developers' handbook pages are translated or translatable.
In reply to None of the developers' by Jojo-Schmitz
Alas !
In reply to None of the developers' by Jojo-Schmitz
You can go to https://translate.google.com and enter a web address such as https://translate.google.com and google translate, select from English, to any language and it will show a translated page for you.
In reply to I don't see the problem in by robert leleu
The problem begins at measure four. When you look at it, the tempo is set to 160 for ALL the instruments. I notated for one SPECIFIC instrument to play at PREVIOUS tempo (a.k.a. don't follow 160). I know this does not let the playback have the instrument play at a different tempo, so I was wondering if there is a way to have the playback do this (Any features I don't know/Tricks with invisible notes etc. that can do this would help! :D)
In reply to The problem begins at measure by Quinn Ouyang
No, there isn't
In reply to The problem begins at measure by Quinn Ouyang
It can be done as follows:
Prepare separate scores for instruments with different tempo.
Export as Audio file for each (wav, mp3, ogg).
Put these files together in a program like Audacity and listen.
Since 100 and 150 bpm are in a 2:3 ratio, you could put the piece in 12/8 (or equivalent) time and have the flute play groups of 4 dotted quarter notes per measure, while the clarinet plays six regular quarter notes per measure. (The overall tempo would be 150 for the quarter notes.)
I realize this is a somewhat contrived solution which doesn't work for most other analogous issues, but it should help in this particular case.
In reply to Since 100 and 150 bpm are in by Dirge Of Dreams
At first I thought I could stretch the specific instrument's notes longer (make their values larger) so the playback fits, but I do not want to change the notes (or at least how they look on the paper). Maybe there is something that lets the instrument play something different than is written and I just invisiblize that and mute the visible notes?
In reply to At first I thought I could by Quinn Ouyang
If you stretch an instrument's play length, every staff will follow it's length. Tenuto and fermata allow for this using the inspector.