Strong support for non-standard tuplets

• Feb 16, 2021 - 12:52

Creating non-standard tuplets seems to be at best cumbersome.

I'm arranging the jazz standard Footprints by Wayne Shorter, and need to create 5:3 tuplets for a line. See attached screenshot. That is, five quarter notes should fall within half of the measure, but upon selecting them and go for Add->Tuplets->Other..., I get "No note or rest selected: [...]".

The solution, of which none I tried yet, appears as workarounds. See for instance these posts:
https://musescore.org/en/node/268222
https://musescore.org/en/node/260646

Could support for non-standard tuplets be added? I would like functionality where I 1) select the notes; and 2) Enter the tuplets values (i.e, N:M).

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Comments

Well, How to create nonstandard tuplets is describing how to to it, but here you don't need those tricks at all, as the base duration is a dotted quarter (half of 3/4), so a duration that can get picked without resorting to tricks.
So select a dotted quartes, 4,., then Ctrl+5, for a regular 5-let (5*8th). Or a custom one, 10/3, then make 5 quarters from the 10 8th

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