"Tuplet cannot cross barlines"/Recovering accidentally deleted music
I am trying to change my 3/4 time signature in a passage for which I've already written the music. I tried to change it to 6/4, but it's not allowing me to because "tuplet cannot cross barlines". This doesn't make any sense because 1) there are no tuplets in my piece at all. None. 2) Even if there were, I wouldn't be adding any barlines, only taking some away, so it wouldn't affect them even if there were any. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I already tried changing the local time signature to 3/2 and, for various ridiculous reasons, I couldn't get that to work and now I can't even change 3/4 to 6/4?????
Edit: I figured out how to fix it, but now I have another problem. I cut the section whose time signature I was going to change and when I was getting ready to paste it, I accidentally clicked copy instead of paste. It was a good twenty measures of music I just deleted. Is there any way I can get it back?
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That indeed is a wrong error message. But changing a local time signature doesn't work if notes are already entered
Try the undo command?
At some level, local time signatures are by definition equivalent to tuplets, they both allow some numbers of notes to fit in a rhythmic space other than what would otherwise appear. For example, a local 3/4 against a global 4/4 means three are three quarter notes in the space of four, exactly the same as a 3:4 tuplet. So the error message, while not precisely accurate, is at least on the right track. Assuming of course you really are using local time signatures (different time signatures on different staves for the same measures). That feature has a number of limitations, but the error messages are pretty generic because they were written at a time when the error messages were "frozen" - no changes allowed because it was just a matters of days or even hours before the MuseScore 2 release and no one has bothered to update them since.
In reply to At some level, local time… by Marc Sabatella
I didn't even get the local time signature working. I was just trying to change the time signature from 3/4 to 6/4 for both parts. It would have only been removing barlines, not adding any, which is why I'm so confused as to why it was doing that. It all got deleted anyway, so I don't have to retroactively do it, I can just put the right time signature in from the get go. Thank you for the tuplet information though, I'll definitely keep that in mind when I figure the local time signature thing out.
In reply to I didn't even get the local… by bestgirltubapl…
This error won't happen without tuplets or local time signature being involeved, so we'd need to see the score
In reply to I didn't even get the local… by bestgirltubapl…
I suspect that at some point you pressed ctrl in the process of adding the time signature. It's quite forgiving as to when you press ctrl to add a local time signature, which can lead to situations like this.