Extending (or shrinking) note while moving back (forward) further notes

• Oct 3, 2018 - 00:20

Hi there,

I've been using Musescore for some years now, but the enormity of options and such make it to difficult to find the right thing and even to find out if the right thing even exists. (and i've been looking for it in searches)

So i wanted to ask you about the possibility of modifying the length of a note in a phrase while also moving furhter notes so that they stay the same and are still all at the same distance to the modified note than before. I hope what i'm meaning is clear. If not, don't hesitate to ask me about further explanation.

Thanks to all people reading my request :)


Comments

Currently the only way to do this is to cut what you want to move, change the length of the note then paste the others where you want them.

In reply to by mike320

Yes i already know about that since i needed to find another way to do this. But this is an external solution, i asked for something integrated by musescore to do this. When you say "the only way", are you sure this is the only way, or do you say that only because you don't know about smth else ?

In reply to by Benjamin Habié

I'm sure there is no other way. People have been discussing how to do this the last few years I've been on these forums and no one has come up with a better way. I've often wished there were so I could quickly fix my error, but I usually find the error fast enough that I just reenter the notes from scratch.

In reply to by Benjamin Habié

It is the only way because MuseScore has no possible way of guessing how many of the subsequent notes you want moved earlier/later in time to accommodate the change in duration. Sometimes it might be just the very next note, sometimes everything to end of the measure, sometimes everything to the for the next few measures, in some cases, maybe even everything to the end of the piece. Only you know how you many notes you want to move, so you need to do it yourself.

Someday MuseScore might possibly add a facility where it attempts to guess and move notes for you, but based on experience extensive with other programs that do this, I can tell you with some certainly the guess will likely be wrong as often as not and it will be even ore of a pain to clean up the mess afterwards.

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