You should be able to remove rests
I think it should be a feature that if you remove rests, it scoots the later parts of the piece closer. This might be useful to many people wanting to make music and edit it(like myself). For example, one time I was writing a fairly long piece, and halfway through I realised I really didn't like the pause it had in the middle. There was no way to remove that pause without putting a note I didn't want there, or without redoing everything that came after that pause in the piece. I just think it would be a nifty feature.
Comments
"later parts" is very unspecific and only you know how many notes to move.
The easiest way to tell MuseScore that is by selecting everything after the rest, cut it and then paste it in the correct place.
Don't think of it as removing silence (the rest), but starting the sound sooner (moving the notes).
In reply to "later parts" is very… by jeetee
A possible MuseScore approach here would be to just time-remove the ranges you don't want and use insert mode to add where you want; completely ignoring that you're creating irregular measure durations.
After all that fiddling, reapply the time signature from the palette and MuseScore will rewrite all measures for you. You just have to make sure that you won't have any tuplets crossing the new barlines or this action will fail.
If I understand correctly, you want delete and make dissapear the "middle" of a piece . MuseScore can delete what you want, the beginning, the end, the middle, it can make dissapear or not what is deleted, without or with empty measures. If you want supprim some measures and join the end to the beginning, select the measures you want to dissapear, and presse TOOLS and the 7ème choise. Use the HANBOOK !!
Think about it. You remove a rest (or even a note) in the middle of a piece. Everything after that moves left. Now metric emphasis is all off. Things that yo intended to be on a down beat are now on the wrong beat. Or maybe an off beat.
In reply to Think about it. You remove a… by bobjp
... and longer notes may be split across a barline (and end up as two tied notes).
In reply to ... and longer notes may be… by DanielR
What I’ve done is sometimes make a different measure to compensate for the timing difference made from the cut and paste back. I’ll reply again with pics whenever I get on my windows laptop.
In reply to ... and longer notes may be… by DanielR
Daniel: Which is nicely handled by the insert mode in Dorico so it's a false problem
In reply to Which is nicely handled by… by frfancha
But we aren't using Dorico. So what does that statement even mean here?