Bar numbers are particularly helpful when navigating linear scores. Multi-measure rests that break logically with phrases can be a location aid. Different barline types help to define sections. Location info helps the musicians stay in sync. Entrance cues in parts are a good example. But even if they don’t always tell you, musicians really appreciate it when you make their job easier by providing clear location info in their parts. “Thanks for the great rehearsal marks!” isn’t the type of compliment you’ll hear from musicians at a rehearsal. Anything else would require a change to the selection paradigm, and I think that's generally out of the question.Image source : “The Art of Music Engraving and Processing” by Ted Ross
#Sibelius insert measure manual
The only reasonable way to get around this (that I can think of anyway) would be some sort of toggle control - when it's on, it would add a measure every time the last measure is filled, but when it's off, the measure count is locked and can only be extended with a manual insert. I'm not sure if that's better than manually inserting my measures beforehand, breaking my workflow - though what I usually end up doing here is just adding a ton of measures when I notice I'm getting near the end, so I end up having to manually delete a bunch of them anyway. So an automatic add would always result in an extra measure at the end you have to end up deleting manually, even if you're just trying to change the last chord instead of continuing to add notes. While Sibelius makes its decision to add measures before it inserts the note I play next, Musescore must make that decision after it inserts the note I just finished. After the last note, the "next" note is the first note of the following measure - which does not yet exist.
This has implications when the end of the score is reached. When a note (or rest) is being so edited, the selection/insertion point is always on that note, not before or after it after the note is entered the insertion point moves onto the next actual note. In fact, "inserting" notes is effectively "editing" the currently-selected rest and turning it into a note. In MuseScore, on the other hand, there is no distinction between inserting notes and editing them. There is no reason to add a new measure at this time, but it is poised and ready to do so if you continue to add notes, as the insertion point after the last note in a measure is equivalent to a point before the first note in the next the program can safely wait until I actually play another note to decide whether or not to add that measure. Note editing, on the other hand, is done by selecting the notes themselves and doing the edits (you also can't use your keyboard to edit the notes, but that's neither here nor there for this discussion).Īs a result, if you enter notes by keyboard and get to the end of the score, the insertion point has a location to reside after the last note in the last measure, even if the measure is full. In note entry, you select an insertion point before the next note in a measure, and when you keyboard-enter the note or chord, it places it in the following note position. In Sibelius 7 (I'm sorry, I don't have access to any later versions to see if it's been changed), "note entry" mode is distinct from "note edit" mode, even if you're not really toggling between the two.
It has to do with the insertion point and "modes" of operation. I've looked into this a little bit more.and it wouldn't be as straightforward as it might seem.
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