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Introduce a pseudo-free time signature #21220

Open NicolaRulli opened 9 months ago

NicolaRulli commented 9 months ago

Your idea

  1. "FREE" written vertically in place of the time signature
  2. 30 whole notes per bar
  3. 1 bar per system, forced
  4. no autofilling of the bar with rests after inputting notes
  5. spacing only considers inputted notes and rests
  6. after last inputted element, playback jumps to next bar (lowest priority since playback isn't going to perform a free time piece well anyway)

Problem to be solved

It is currently impossible to write music that doesn't follow a beat and bar structure in Musescore.

Prior art

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Additional context

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shoogle commented 2 months ago

Instead of pseudo free time with one fixed-length measure per system, why not implement actual free time with unlimited notes per measure, and allow the system to break anywhere it needs to, including in the middle of a measure?