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Additional note and rest formatting
3. Select “Build N-Tuplet” from the Scores menu.
The Tuplets dialog appears.
4. Set the type of tuplet in the Type field.
“5” means a quintuplet, “7” means a septuplet etc.
5. Set the length of the entire tuplet using the “Over”
field.
6. Activate Change Length, if you need it.
If you do, the program will alter the length of all notes so that they are ex-
actly the note value the tuplet indicates. If you don’t, the lengths of the
existing notes won’t be affected in any way.
7. If you want any other text than the standard above the
tuplet, enter it into the “Text” field.
The standard text is simply the number in the type field. If the tuplet is put
under a beam (see “Tuplet display options” on page 555) the text is put
just above it. If there is no beam, the text is found in the middle of a
bracket.
8. Click Build.
The tuplet appears. The notes have now been moved to the tuplet posi-
tions and their length might have changed.
9. If needed, edit the lengths and pitches of the notes in
the tuplet.
You can also make various settings for the appearance of the tuplet –
see below.
Without permanent change to MIDI data
1. Select the notes in the tuplet group.
In this case, the notes play back correctly but aren’t displayed as a tuplet
(yet).
2. Select “Build N-Tuplet” from the Scores menu to bring
up the Tuplets dialog.
3. Make settings in the dialog, as described above.
4. Click Quantize.
Now the tuplet is displayed correctly. You can make additional settings
for how the tuplet should appear, as described below.
5. If necessary, adjust the notes.
Editing tuplet settings
1. Double-click on the text above the Tuplet group to
bring up the Tuplets dialog.
2. Adjust the Text setting.
3. Click Apply.
The changes are applied to the tuplet, without affecting the tuplet type or
length.
Grouping
If the Tuplet is a quarter note long or shorter, the notes will
be automatically grouped under a beam. If it is longer you
have to perform the grouping manually. See “Grouping”
on page 547 for details.
Tuplet display options
On the Score Settings–Project page, Notation Style sub-
page (“Tuplets” category), you find the following settings
for tuplets:
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Lengths and positions in a tuplet group are probably
best edited using the info line.
Option Description
Tuplet Brackets There are three possible settings for this option:
– None: Tuplets never have brackets.
– Always: Tuplets always have brackets.
– …by the head: Brackets are shown only when the tu-
plets are displayed on the “head side”.
Display Tuplet
values by the
Beams
When this is activated, tuplets will be displayed on the
“beam side” of the notes instead of on the note head
side.
Suppress
Recurring
Tuplets
When this is activated, and you have several tuplets of
the same type in the same bar, only the first of these is
displayed as a tuplet.
Show Tuplet
Brackets as
“Slurs”
When this is activated, the tuplet brackets will be “slur-
like” (rounded).
Double-click here.