(Help!) How to change time signature to lengthen all notes

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Post by paulxoro » Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:27 pm

Hi there,

I have a piece in 2/4 with a lot of 32nd and 64th notes and rests, which are pretty hard to read. How can I get it transformed into a 4/4 piece with the doubled duration of all the notes?

Thanks for your advice and comments.
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Post by zuill » Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:44 pm

Jari's JW Meter and Rhythm plugin can do this in one click.

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Post by N Grossingink » Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:56 pm

Go to Utilities > Change > Note Durations and set 200%–check Rebar Music. Change the Time Signature to 4/4, also with Rebar.

Did you knowingly enter 64th notes, or was this a MIDI file you opened in Finale? If a MIDI file, play it back to make sure all those notes aren't just a bunch of erroneous hash.

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Post by paulxoro » Tue Mar 26, 2019 4:38 pm

zuill wrote:Jari's JW Meter and Rhythm plugin can do this in one click.

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Zuill, thank you very much for this piece of advice - it worked flawlessly!
(I had to find a 64-bit version of this plugin because the first version of it, which I downloaded not caring much about the bits, turned out to be invisible for my Finale. Just in case someone reads the topic, here is the 64-bit version of this pretty slick plugin: http://www.finaletips.nu/index.php/down ... g-ins-test)

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Post by paulxoro » Tue Mar 26, 2019 4:48 pm

N Grossingink wrote:Go to Utilities > Change > Note Durations and set 200%–check Rebar Music. Change the Time Signature to 4/4, also with Rebar.

Did you knowingly enter 64th notes, or was this a MIDI file you opened in Finale? If a MIDI file, play it back to make sure all those notes aren't just a bunch of erroneous hash.

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N Grossingink, thank you!
It worked pretty well but not perfectly: there are two voices in my piece, and for unknown reason some notes from the middle part of the second voice were shifted a couple of measures back. Anyway, I'm going to give it another try - maybe I omitted something in the settings...
The piece was a Music-XML file, with original 64th notes and rests, which I imported into Finale.

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Post by miker » Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:11 pm

If the XML was created from a scan, and something like SmartScore Lite or PDF to XML was used, that would explain it. The scans don’t always recognize “implied” rests. I find that putting them in manually (in the FULL SmartScore program) is the best way to avoid shifts. Also, if the score had different numbers of staves in various systems, that can also lead to problems. Again, the fix is to correct them before creating the XML, which is something the lite versions don’t let you do.
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Post by motet » Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:06 am

In my limited experience with SmartScore, it will think nothing of creating a 3/4 displayed as 4/4 if it misses a rest in 4/4. Since that would be very unusual notation, it would do better to assume that in the absence of a written time signature change, there is in fact no time signature change.

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