Fitting more than three notes into a triplet
Should this happen?
1. In a 4/4 piano score, create a triplet based on a crotchet.
2. Select semi-quavers and enter six of those.
I would have thought it would be a sextuplet.
Using 1.0.0 pre-release (3949) and 10.4.11.
Comments
I remembered a score I have - it is triplets on a minim (six quavers) however, which maybe different.
Can someone confirm?
Yes, I would recommend writing a sextuplet instead, but I'm not sure that MuseScore should change it to a sextuplet after you told it to create a triplet.
To create a sextuplet choose Notes > Tuplets > Sextuplet.
In reply to Sextuplet by David Bolton
Yes, I thought that too. Perhaps it should change number any time you enter a different value?
Are there exceptions, or is it generally not accepted?
In reply to Yes, I thought that too. by chen lung
Our comments probably passed each other. I edited my original comment to include instruction for sextuplets. For more details see tuplet in the handbook.
Do you still think it shouldn't automatically change?
In reply to Do you still think it by chen lung
Personally, I would find it a help if it changed automatically. After all, if I'd changed the timing so that I have three eighth notes in a beat, logic dictates that I should be able to make 6 sixteenth notes if I desired instead, as it wouldn't theoretically change the value of the beat.
I'm not sure now.
What if you have a situation like this (the semiquaver)?
In reply to I'm not sure now. What if you by chen lung
I'd still want to be able to change the quavers into two semiquavers each if I wanted to change it, and I'd also want the semiquavers to be changed to a quaver if it was changed, and without compromising the the tuplet value. I don't know that the issue is so much what in reguards to value is entered in, but rather that the value of the beat is changed from the standard of two quavers to three (or whatever value of note you are using).
In reply to I'd still want to be able to by rj45
"I'd still want to be able to change the quavers into two semiquavers each if I wanted to change it, and I'd also want the semiquavers to be changed to a quaver if it was changed, and without compromising the the tuplet value."
Yes, so it should stay the way it is?
In reply to "I'd still want to be able to by chen lung
I haven't found it to work that way in 0.9.6.3, but perhaps it was reconfigured in 1.0? Sorry for confusion. :)
In reply to I haven't found it to work by rj45
Is there a reason you don't use 1.0? :)