Repeat barlines don't work in mid measure
Dragging and dropping an end-start repeat ( :||: ) in the middle of a measure does not result in a working mid measure repeat: it is ignored on playback. A visually similar effect can be achieved by placing the :||: at the end of a measure and reducing the number of actual notes in the measures before and after the :||:, which does work correctly on playback. See attached files, which look identical, but are not ... one has a :||: dropped in a measre, the other has a :||: at the end of a measure.
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| repeat mid measure (barline entered).mscz | 1.65 KB |
| repeat mid measure (barline entered).png | 92.73 KB |
| repeat mid measure (irregular measures).mscz | 1.65 KB |
| repeat mid measure (irregular measures).png | 94.71 KB |
Comments
Repeats work only on measure boundaries by design. Whats wrong with the irregular measure solution?
The irregular measure solution works OK. The issue is that the GUI allows dropping a :||: in the middle of a measure, resulting in something that looks almost exactly like the irregular measure solution, but doesn't work as expected. If repeats are only allowed at measure boundaries, the GUI should enforce that constraint.
My preference would be dragging a bar line to a mid-measure point created an irregular measure.
The ability to place barlines in the middle of a measure was implemented for dotted bar lines and does not change the semantic of a measure. This should not work at least for repeat bar lines.
I am afraid that splitting a measure by placing a bar line would produce a lot of special cases. The split has to work over all staves and while some special cases like splitting a note into two with a tie can be solved automatic while others like splitting a tuplet is not easy possible.
Duplicate of #1408: Repeats in the middle of measure do not affect playback
Here are some examples pf the problem. I don't know how to fix it. It is supposed to go to the dotted quarter then reapeat then continue the song. how can I get it to go to the dotted quarter and repeat in these songs?
The workaround is as mentioned above: split the measure into two irregular measures with the appropriate number of beats (right click measure, measure properties), and then put the repeat on the barline between those measures.
But how can I get a dotted quarter in one measure and an eighth in the other because it won't let me do half beats
Set actual time signatures to 3/8 and 1/8 respectively.
However, I think this still should get fixed. Either by disallowing any barline (at least any repeats barline) to get inserted into the middle of a measure, or (IHMO better) by automatically split the measure at that spot (marking the 2nd part as ''don't count", something the 'split measure' funtion doesn't do).
An easier, appropriate fix for the time being, would be, when the user drops a repeat in the middle of the measure, a warning dialog could appear to notify the user that the playback won't work that way.
The dialog box could also suggest the workaround of creating two irregular measures.
the next versio9n does have a 'spilt measure' feature already, extending it just slightly to get used when a barline gets inserted in the middle shouldn't be too difficult then, I guess.
The ability to insert a graphical barline in the middle of a measure is something quite powerful. It gives freedom to the user to do things we can't think about and provide a way to workaround some limitation. I wouldn't split automatically a measure when inserting a barline. I believe is one of this case where less automation gives more freedom and more power.
See also http://musescore.org/en/node/46731#comment-227626
FWIW, if someday we wished to support this, we could make it a property settable in Inspector, so you could hav either type if you wished.
I am definitely against having the bar line drop to split measures: to me the power of this feature is to have bar lines at different places in the various staves.
The attached image (too big to insert it in line) shows a use case, made by a complex mix of 'regular', dropped and hidden bar lines.
Now, try to do this if dropping a bar line should split the measures! (And, yes, that score has been made with MuseScore).
there is a workaround with irregular measures to put a repeat mark in middle of measure. But: couldn't do that musescore by itself in background? (drop repeat mark in middle of bar, musescore computes itself how to do the measure before and after and handles the midi ...
It's possible, sure, but see the response just above yours. This isn't always what one would want.
Since you mention irregular measures as the workaround, in guessing you are trying to do or the long slow manual way. Splitting a measure in two is very easy with Edit / Measures / Split Measure.
by design. Using Ctrl+drag splits the measure in 3.0 and so makes the playback work