Does the NOTE = note tempo marking actually affect playback? | MuseScore 4
I have a score that alternates between Common Time and 12/8. I would like to set the tempo at the beginning and then have it switch from the quarter note = [my tempo] to dotted quarter note = [my tempo]. When I use the quarter = dotted quarter and/or the dotted quarter = quarter marking from the Tempo palette, it does not seem to change the tempo to match. I have to explicitly say quarter note = [my_tempo] and dotted quarter note = [my tempo]. This means that, if I want to change the overall tempo of the piece, I have to change each one separately. (In the piece in question, that's ~20 changes!)
Is there a way to do this automatically? So I can set one of them at the beginning and have it automatically make the bpm change as the pulse beat changes?
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Okay this is weird! I deleted all the tempo markings and then tried again with the NOTE = note marking. It worked on the FIRST change, but had no effect on subsequent changes.
Eight changes, not 20. Not as bad as I had believed, but still not good.
[a little later] Okay, I've managed to make it work?
If I select all the tempo markings (Ctrl+A, right-click a tempo marking, select "Similar"), uncheck the "Follow Written Tempo", then re-check the "Follow Written Tempo", it apparently re-calculates the change. However, if I then change the first tempo (quarter note = [new_tempo]), it keeps the old tempos for all the NOTE = note markings until I repeat the uncheck/recheck step.
[Still later] Sometimes when I change the first tempo the quarter = dotted quarter and vice versa works, and sometimes it doesn't. I can't figure this out. However, when it doesn't work, unchecking and re-checking the "Follow Written Tempo" forces it to work every time I've tried it so far.
It may be that when I open it from the disk, the FIRST time I change the first tempo, the NOTE = note doesn't update. Once I uncheck/re-check, it does. NOT sure of this!!!
I've attached the file if you want to look at it.
In reply to Okay this is weird! I… by TheHutch
Played just fine for me as written. I replaced with dotted= and quarter= and played just the same. (can't write quarter notes etc.)
John