Can't make 5-beat tremolo between two notes.
It's impossible to create a 5-beat tremolo, because half a 5-beat note has to be made out of IE a half note tied to an 8th note, and adding a tremolo between two tied notes will not incorporate the duration of the notes they are tied to:
It's possible to make a 6-beat tremolo in a 6-beat measure, then change the measure to 5 beats and remove the tied note that fell out of the measure, but this does not affect playback and messing with this crashes Musescore:
I'd suggest that it should be made possible to create tremolos with two notes of unequal lenght.
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Actually, you can do it - just create a duplet (select the full measure rest, press Ctrl+2) and enter the ntoes there, then add the tremolo.
However, you instantly run into another bug: for some reason, a duplet in 5.4 shows as two quarters. The turning into a tremolo shows as two halves. Not sure what you'd actually want - two wholes? Two dotted halves? Anyhow, you might need to fake it by using the Inspector to change noteheads, hide stems, add dots as symbols, etc.
In reply to Actually, you can do it -… by Marc Sabatella
I also filed #273620: Wrong base value used for duplet in some time signatures regarding the duplet appearance. Workaround is simple, use Ctrl+4 instead, which give four quarters, and you can then easily rewrite that as two halves, and then create the tremolo. I actually don't hear a playback issue in this case, but don't doubt there might be other cases where playback is not correct.
A tremolo of different durations is not defined. I've never seen one written anywhere. In a case such as 5/4 I've seen it look like two 1/2 notes with a tremolo bar followed by two dotted 1/2 notes with a tremolo tremolo bar (or in the opposite order). I don't recall seeing it as two whole notes in a duplet (or 4th-let in MuseScore), but this would make sense to me, except it would not be played the same as the two 1/2 notes and two dotted 1/2 notes I expect to see. MuseScore does not play tremolos between two notes in a tuplet correctly (See #259771: Make tremolo between notes play correct rhythm when between tuplets).