Multiple voice triplets

• Oct 16, 2020 - 08:42

I ran into a situation that I have never encountered.

I had two voice in triplets on the same staff, so I thought I would be able to write the triplets create a second voice and then write the second voice of triplets. NOT so fast. I could not get muse score to populate a second voice--in this case--over the triplets.

My solution was to write quarter notes in two voices and then go back and convert them to the triplets I wanted. I am fairly used to the work arounds to do most things but this seemed like a glitch in the system.

Anyone encountered this?

Comments

jeetee

• Oct 16, 2020 - 09:49

Can you be very specific on the steps you took (which keys pressed in which order, where did you click etc?) and where it seemingly fails for you?

mike320

• Oct 16, 2020 - 14:39

It should work fine. I often make a measure full of triplet rests in voice 1 and voice 2 then go back and enter notes into the two voices.

SRaybourne

• Oct 17, 2020 - 01:50

So I think I have an answer, but first

I wrote in the notes I wanted for voice one then highlighted the whole measure to add voice two. A step I have taken many times with success. When I highlighted the measure of triplets I could not add a voice two. So ...

I added the two voices over quarter notes, then transformed them into triplets

mike320

• Oct 17, 2020 - 02:14

I have no problems selecting an entire measure and turning the rests into triplets. I selected a measure with measure rests in both voices 1 and 2 and got appropriate triplets. I then filled the measure in both voices with 1/4 rests, selected the measure and turned them into appropriate triplets. I can't think of what you might be doing wrong.