Am I missing something with beam groups?
Hi, I'm a recent convert from Sibelius and loving getting to know Musescore - can't believe just how logical everything is over here compared to Sibelius! I'm having a bit of trouble getting beaming to work though. I've found the time signature properties and can group the notes as I wish, (currently working in 6/4 with a grouping of quavers 3,2,2,2,3), but after I have edited the time signature and go back to work on the score, it still groups the quavers in 2's. I must be missing something and I'd be grateful for any tips. Thanks!
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Glad you're finding most things work well for you! Regarding time signature properties, these are per-staff, so if you change beaming on one staff, it doesn't necessarily affect others. Unless you then add the customized time signature to your palette, and use it to add the time signature to your score where it will then affrect all staves at once.
Also note, any beam properties you set explicitly on individual notes take precedence over what's in the time signature properties. That includes any beam groups imported from MusicXML, not sure if that's relevant here, but since you mention Sibelius, maybe so.
If that doesn't solve it for you, please attach your score so we can understand and assist better.
In reply to Glad you're finding most… by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc - that makes sense. I had assumed because when you click on a time signature the whole score's time signatures get selected that I was editing them all. Maybe a way to do that in future would make sense as adding a new 7/8 to the palette doesn't really give me any indication of the beaming when I come to choose it again later... Thanks again for the quick reply.
In reply to Thanks Marc - that makes… by Sihaz
After adding it to the palette, you can right-click it there and use the cell properties to customize the tooltip, so you can add your own hint about the beaming.
But yes, the ability to set directly multiple time signature properties at once has come up before, and I suspect that will happen at some point. Time signatures are a little unusual in that some things about them are global to the all staves but others are per-staff, and this is in part to support the ability to have different time signatures on different staves. But that's a pretty unusual / specialized use case, and it would be better if support for that didn't inconvenience more "traditional" uses of time signatures.
In reply to After adding it to the… by Marc Sabatella
Ah thanks - that's great - again I made an incorrect assumption. When I found the right click properties I thought it would edit the name of the whole Time Signatures box! Perfect - much appreciated. :-)