Split quarter note into triplets?

[Josh_Oxford]

I know that you can split quarters into eighths and similar “whole” splits, but can you split a quarter notes in 3 to make triplets or 5 to make quintuplets?

[jesele]

No, but I like the idea.

Jesper

[Josh_Oxford]

Very useful feature in Finale

[Christian_R]

Hi @Josh_Oxford, I like the idea too, but since the rhythmic grid doenst have tuplets values (jet) is not possible. But you can record macros to do that. Here an example (to “split” a quarter note into eight notes triplet):

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split quarter into triplet.lua (428 Bytes)

local app=DoApp.DoApp()
app:doCommand([[NoteInput.NoteValue?LogDuration=kQuaver]])
app:doCommand([[NoteInput.StartTupletRun]])
app:doCommand([[NoteInput.StartTupletRun?Definition=3:2e]])
app:doCommand([[EventEdit.NavigateNextItemSamePosition]])
app:doCommand([[NoteInput.RepeatLast]])
app:doCommand([[NoteInput.RepeatLast]])
app:doCommand([[EventEdit.EditExistingOrEnterStepTimeInput]])
app:doCommand([[NoteInput.Enter?Set=1]])

This is not very useful if you have notes afterwards,… there are for sure other workflows for recording the macro…, for example you would need to record the activation of the stop bar…

[Josh_Oxford]

Interesting thank you!