This is a small one, but the “trim” command in the Bars and Barlines Popover is causing all of the bars after the last bar that has something attached to it (like a rehearsal mark) to be deleted, regardless of which bar is selected when the command is invoked. Anyone else experiencing that?
“Trim” deletes indeed everything that’s empty at the end of a flow.
As far as I know, this has always been the case.
Are you experiencing different behaviour?
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Oh, I guess I misunderstood that. I thought it deletes everything after the bar or barline that you select. I’ve been working on a couple of things for which I know the exact number of bars. This is probably the first time I’ve tried to preemptively delete the extra bars before entering the music, so I may have had the wrong idea about it before. Thanks!
just to be sure: are you creating bars, before inputting music into them?
Depending on your workflow, I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with this. I’m often copying from an existing source, so it can be useful to set up the score before I start entering notes – bars, time sigs, tempo changes, rehearsal marks, etc.
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You can enter ‘Shift+B -1000’ to delete the next 1000 bars including content.
The projects are arrangements for existing tracks, and after I set up the scores and added a bunch of bars, I figured I’d count them out and delete the extra ones. I used the system track method. It dawned on me after Estigy’s reminder that I actually used to know how the “trim” command works, so now I’m a little embarrassed, heh.
Strange,
My experiences are that the trim function works only for EMPTY bars. When there is anything left )Tempo markings rit. lines etc) that trim just gets rid of COMPLETELY empty measures.
Shore
To delete the bars (empty or not) from a specific point to end of flow you can:
- select something in the first bar that should be deleted
- menu Edit > Select To End of Flow
- menu Edit > Delete bars
(you can also assign Key Commands to those)
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Or as @BassoContinuo pointed out earlier use shift-B -1000
Yes, there are many ways you can do things.
@BassoContinuo suggestion requires “6” key strokes, and the other “2” (with Key Commands):