Reinterpreting triplet as not a triplet

I have the following interpretation as part of an imported MIDI file:


I wish to have both the upper and lower triplets be 16th rest, 8th note, 16th note (or something like that). I thought the quantize feature would do this, but I could not get it to remove the triplet at all.

Suggestions?

Have you tried requantize (just those bars) with the tuplet setting switched off?

Alternatively it is a good exercise to remove the tuplets manually (it’s no more than half a dozen keystrokes)

I tried requantizing with the “recognize triplets” turned off and got this:

yes, manually cut the ties over to the next bar.
Make sure your rhythmic grid is set to eighth notes.
Select the two eighth notes of the tuplet.
With Alt pressed, use the left arrow key to move the notes one to the left.
Delete the tuplet.
You will end up with two straight eighth notes.

Then set the rhythmic grid to sixteenth notes.
Change the second note to a sixteenth note.
Select both notes again and shift them one to the right.

ps.: it seems like a lot of manual steps - but it is a good exercise at the same time - and doesn’t really take that long…

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It was just a suggestion… (not all suggestions work!)

My version of @k_b route is…

Set grid to 16ths.
Insert on.
Delete tuplet.
Select 8th rest and change duration to 16th.
Select the tied note and shorten it (shift-alt-left arrow)

Repeat for the lower stave.
Insert off.

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You are a daring person :wink:

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I have learnt to trust it, learnt not to panic when notation changes dramatically, and remember that ctrl-Z is always there.

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