Feature Request: Clean up ties

[belfie13]

This request is for a function that will consolidate any ties that are easily concatenated. For example if you have a 1/8 note tied to another 1/8 note it will convert it to a 1/4 note ♪⁀♪ => ♩ or a 1/4 and an 1/8 note will convert to a dotted 1/4 note ♩⁀♪ => ♩.

This is really useful when moving notes left or right, any notes that would extend beyond their measure will be shortened and then tied into the next measure to the original length. Once you move a few things this gets kinda messy with alot of ties.

Might even be useful if it was done automatically when moving notes left/right. This might not be a wanted side effect if tied notes were preferred over dotted notes for readability. Maybe this could be a user or score preference?

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[belfie13]

sorry haven't tested it on a current version, will do now. that was v1.6.3 macosx swt

[belfie13]

yeah same on latest pre-release.

damn wish i had the time and ability to help out.

[belfie13]

I know you guys are busy, i just wanted to check in and see if that was a good/valid request? there's a few things like that which don't break the score but can be pretty annoying to work with.

• [ ] also would be nice to move notes without affecting other measures. maybe like drag and drop. i can create another issue if you like that

[guiv42]

i just wanted to check in and see if that was a good/valid request?

I'd say it makes sense, as many other pending feature requests. I would not consider this a simple modification though. Currently, in the software "tied note" is just a Boolean attribute of a note. Note may be tied to nothing. In other words, 2 tied notes in the score are just completely independent from each other in the software. So it requires some work to re-create this relation to be able to merge tied notes. Quite busy as you mentioned, so I would not consider this a high priority issue, please be patient.

And yes, I prefer you create separate issues for different feature requests.

[belfie13]

this would be solved by #579

[belfie13]

please be patient

for sure!

Note may be tied to nothing

i see, there's maybe a few issues with this. i'll just add some thoughts from a n00b

• 579 would solve this, making edits confined to a measure, and not affect the entire score, would remove this issue, where changes to duration (edits to note durations or inserting or removing notes) cause notes later in the score to be split as their durations span over bar lines when moved.

• backwards compatibility: can't link to previous note without changing the type from boolean.
  • might be able to add a property, keeping the boolean
• tied notes still play at proper duration so the player must link them
  • might be able to borrow the logic from that algorithm
• tied notes with no previous note to link to are not played -ˆx-
• tied notes with different pitch are played at the pitch of the note they are tied to. -2ˆ3- will play as -2ˆ2-