musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Introduce a pseudo-free time signature
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feature request
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Description
Your idea
- "FREE" written vertically in place of the time signature
- 30 whole notes per bar
- 1 bar per system, forced
- no autofilling of the bar with rests after inputting notes
- spacing only considers inputted notes and rests
- 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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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the time-signature, bar-layout, note-input, and playback paths, then determine how the six requested behaviors can be represented together; done means a free-time bar supports the listed notation, spacing, input, system, rest, and playback rules.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100