Pauses (Breathing)
Hi, gang!!!
I don't know if I missed something in the way, but (up to my knowledge) MuseScore doesn't perform anything when we put a breathing (pause) sign into the score.
Even the fact that it isn't relevant to the final result (paper printed music score)... Why not to add this characteristic? ???
It is just about to short a little the duration of the note at the left of the sign!!!
Well, just an idea.
Greetings & Blessings from Chile!!!!!!!
Juan
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You are talking about the playback effect of a caesure, right?
I think this used to work in development builds prior to 2.0
The infrastructure is in the code (the class Breath contains a member _pause and there is a getPropetry() and setProperty() method), it gets read from and write to a score, but UI to see and set it is missing.
See #16213: Playback of caesura produces no discernible pause
In reply to You are talking about the by Jojo-Schmitz
To be clear: a breath mark is totally different from a caesura. Breath marks look like apostrophes and do not normally affect the tempo of the music one bit - they simply indicate where to breathe. So the note before the breath marks get cut short a fraction of a second. A caesura looks like two parallel lines (the colloquial term is "railroad tracks") and indicates an actual pause in the music. Like a fermata over a rest, basically.
Currently MuseScore supports playback of caesura (no customization over the length of the pause) but not breaths.
In reply to To be clear: a breath mark is by Marc Sabatella
I'm using MuseScore 2.0.2 (with my Lubuntu enviroment) and the Ceasura works... As a too much long pause (absolutely out of the tempo rhythmical clock). Breath doesn't work, definitively.
Isn't a way to control the ceasura pause time? ???
Isn't a way to add a real "breath" effect? ???
My humble opinion about the ceasura behaviour (and the breath effect as well) is... It is adding a pause, a very long pause, to the playback time, while the thing it should have to do is to short the last note playback time and replace it for a silent moment. Am I wrong? ???
In reply to I'm using MuseScore 2.0.2 by jotape1960
Casesura is *supposed* to add a long pause. Many if not most caesuras in real world music are considerably longer than the 2 seconds MuseScore creates. I think you might be confusing these with something else if you are thinking these are much too long - they are really too *short* for many situations. But sure, a way to customzie this time might be nice someday.
Breaths are, again, a completely different thing. Those should not interrupt the music at all, and they don't. So that much is good. They should only shorten the previous note by a fraction of a second. This is currently not supported. And again, sure, it would be nice some day.
In reply to Casesura is *supposed* to add by Marc Sabatella
To be clear, I really don't know how and where the caesura symbol should be use. Obviously, it isn't the audible effect I want to hear.
We can add the breath effect through the Piano Roll Editor, but, honestly, it is a real annoying thing to use it: note by note, staff by staff, Puff!!! Too much work, folks!!! So...
Why not to add the effect directly to the Breath symbol? ???
Please!!!
In reply to To be clear, I really don't by jotape1960
I would like to support the idea that a caesura should have a customisable delay. It's far too long for the first situation that I've had where I'd like to use it: but that's not really the point, rather that the symbol means "watch the conductor", not "count the seconds".
And if that feature were to be added, it would be helpful if it could also be added to the comma (why not? after all, the default delay for the comma could be set to zero). Musicians are not clockwork devices, and the user could decide whether or not playback should represent them blundering past a comma without feeling.
Also, I find with pleasure that a fermata (pause, it's usually called this side of the pond) can be added to a barline. But the Time Stretch box in the inspector seems to do nothing in this instance, which is a pity, as one then has to try to insert a gap by some other method (which I haven't found yet!). [Or have I missed something?]