Tempo note duration
Could we please have the facility to assign a note duration to a tempo (BPM) setting. A drop down table with the following note durations in the same window as the BPM selection facility would be ideal.
eigth
eigth dotted
quarter
quarter dotted
half
half dotted
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I second this! I'd love to be able to add "[note] = bpm" to tempo declarations.
In reply to I second this! I'd love to by lauraw
You can do it. It's just a little bit longer. Create a tempo text, double click it and press F2 to display the text palette. There is everything you need to enter a quarter, a dot etc ...
In reply to You can do it. It's just a by [DELETED] 5
I think you've misunderstood my request, or perhaps I haven't explained it properly. The best thing I can do is give an example of what I'm trying to do...............
A score in 6/8 time with 6 x eighth notes per measure in two groups of 3 would be conducted as two in a bar with each beat being equal to a dotted quarter - no problems there, perfectly conventional stuff.
OK, so how do I get that score to play back in MuseScore, (and play back tempo is the issue here), with a tempo of a dotted quarter = ,say, 120 bpm, in other words with each group of 3 eighth notes being played 120 times per minute? I can't see a way to do this with tempo text.
In reply to I think you've misunderstood by Peter B
I though I understood your request. You want a simpler way to assign a tempo. For now, the number in Midi properties is always relative to a quarter and you want to be able to change this.
For the time being, you can't (so your request is legitimate) but there is a workaround. Dotted quarter = 120 means that a quarter is 180. See the file attached (created with the last nightly)
In reply to I though I understood your by [DELETED] 5
OK I've finally got it - sorry to have been so slow !!
Thanks
In reply to OK I've finally got it - by Peter B
Although the work-around usually works, in extreme cases it fails. Consider a piece in which the 16th note gets the beat of 72 BPM. This would mean that (76/4) there would be 19 quarter notes per minute, but setting the tempo to 19 fails to give the expected results because the minimum tempo is 20bpm.
It would also be good to add a "whole measure" option in addition to the note values above, since, in the case of times like 5/16, there may not be a ready note value to attach the beat to.
In reply to extreme cases by MDMilford
Precisely, hence my original post and carefully listed note durations but I rest content that my request is well understood.