Timing - fairly accurate estimates
This may be something which already exists, but I've not seen it. It would be useful to be able to time pieces or sections of pieces fairly accurately while writing them. Currently I usually export to mp3, then look at the file details to find the timing, but there might be other better ways of doing this.
Perhaps less accurate estimates would simply be based on bar counts, and tempi estimates. I think some people might find this quite useful. Timing could also be between markers put into the score, or a selection, and that might help with balancing sections out.
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open score in musescore, open play pannel, move the slider to the far right and read the grand total
to get a fairly accurate idea of where you are in a score, select a note and double tap the spacebar and the slider Jojo mentioned will show the current time.
In reply to to get a fairly accurate… by mike320
At the bottom of the screen, Musescore gives you information about a note you select. Sibelius does also. And it adds a time stamp in minutes and seconds for the note.
In reply to At the bottom of the screen,… by bobjp
You mean Sibelius time stamps it. I'm curious what it reports when you select a note inside of a repeat.
In reply to You mean Sibelius time… by mike320
As I now look at it, they call it time code. It does not count repeats. I can see the draw back. It depends on what you need the time for. If you are working with video you probably don't want repeats anyway.
In reply to As I now look at it, they… by bobjp
MuseScore knows and shows measure and beat, it also knows the tempo (tempi actually, the tempo map), the rest is plain math (those tempo changes make this more complicated)
To me that sound like a job for @jeetee ;-)
In reply to MuseScore knows and shows… by Jojo-Schmitz
I was never any good at math. 2+2=22 makes sense to me.
In reply to As I now look at it, they… by bobjp
@bobjp Right, you would want to use unroll repeats for this. Then the time stamp in the play panel would be more meaningful as well.