I am working on a piano piece and I wish to place semibreves at inexact (not in their rhymical pattern or grid) places on the score - the intent is to give a sense of note placement, but without a precise rhythmic indication. I have no time signature and when in Engrave Mode, I can only shift the individual note positions a few spaces before the staves from the rest of the page start moving and overlapping each other. How can I manage to just move the note position without the staves moving too?
thanks for your reply. Your suggestion is what I am doing - moving the circular spacing handles to move the notes - but after a few clicks the whole score begins to collapse on itself.
I’ve taken a couple of screenshots - as you’ve suggested. Although, I’m having difficulties loading them…and I’m not sure if they’ll come through or not.
Yeah - they’re not working. I’ve reduced the images to less than 50kb each - I’ve dragged them manually and tried to upload them. And then they sit there ‘processing’. Maybe I need to change browsers.
The second shot is what happens when I move the circular handle too many spaces. What’s also strange is that when the staves move, the undo (Command Z) doesn’t work.
Hi Simon, what happens if you save, close, then re-open the project? There can sometimes be an issue where certain operations make specific staves get further apart, forcing the rest closer and closer together.
If I faced such a challenge, I’d use unmeasured bars and hidden rests to place the notes. If playback is needed, I’d adjust the played length of the notes in the Play mode piano roll.
I can reproduce the similar unnatural behaviour of pedal mark. The procedure : make two notes, make two rests, create the pedal from the second note to the first rest, and apply a System Break on the last rest position. Then as we move the circular handle of the first note, the pedal moves more and more downwards. I think this is a bug.
As a quick fix for the pedal in your project file, select the last chord on the bottom staff of the first system, and show the hidden rests(deactivate Ends voice property in properties panel). Then extend the third pedal’s rhythmic range to the end of the system. Then hide this rest again. After this process, the pedal will probably stop behaving strangely.
