Playback head moving by beat
I am elaborating on a post about a new feature described by lasconic.
Regarding the playing of beats in a bar with one chord held over multiple beats, he says: "It's a new feature in Musescore 2.0 that the cursor move beat by beat. I do like it and I think it will be valuable to people using MuseScore as rehearsal tool or accompaniement tool (even if it's not the fist purpose of it)."
I would argue that for cases where there is a time signature without every beat completed (e.g. 3/8), it wouldn't seem balanced.
It maybe a good teaching tool, but as you say, it's not the first purpose. They should maybe use a workaround, such as silencing and hiding notes in another voice.
Comments
What do you mean about 3/8 not having every beat completed? It does by standard definitions - only fractional time signatures would not. Depending on how you think of it, 3/8 is either three complete eighth note beats or one complete dotted quarter note beat. Given the nature of the feature, I think interpreting it as three eighth note beats would be preferable in this context, and that's precisely what it does. Under what circumstance could this possibly be a problem? Obviously, treating 3/8 as one and half quarter note beats would be weird, but the feature doesn't do that, nor should it.
I wouldn't have rated this a high priority enhancement, but now that it is here, what would the point be of backing it out?
In reply to What do you mean about 3/8 by Marc Sabatella
Those are both triple time. The is a duple time.