Instrument change should be able to apply to multimeasure rest

• Oct 30, 2019 - 23:42
Reported version
3.2
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

The most usual (I can't imagine any counter-examples) place to have an instrument change is at the start of a series or rests, so that the player has time to make the change. The current behaviour means that when one places an instrument change in its most logical position, say at the start of a period of 8 bars rest, if multimeasure rests are enabled MS insists on the instrument change being placed in a single bar rest, followed by a 7 bars multimeasure rest. It is impossible in such a case to have the instrument change at the start of an 8 bar multimeasure rest.

I suggest that instrument changes, like tempo text, should not force a break in multimeasure rests.

If there are counter examples where it makes sense to have a break, the user would be able to achieve this via the Bar Properties.

Comments

• Oct 31, 2019 - 13:02

I agree with what I believe you are trying to say, which is that an instrument change should break multimeasure rests in exactly the same way that tempo text does. At first, it looked like you were saying that an instrument change should not break multimeasure rests at all, which I do not agree with.

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• Oct 31, 2019 - 14:03

Provided we can eliminate the break if the instrument change is in the first measure of a run of rest bars, I will be happy. Having an instrument change after the first bar of the run is not going to happen very often if at all. Why ask the player to wait to make the change? Unless it is for choreographic effect. (eg. Bar 32, the sax section puts down their saxes and ostentatiously take up kazoos).

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Fix version
3.4.0