Hi folks,
Today I used Eduard van Hengel's site to find the rehearsal Midi's of Bach Cantata Nr 147. The opening part is in 6/4. The beaming is not pretty; it should be in quarters. Two eights, four sixteenths, and eighth and a sixteenth per beam. Unfortunately, the beams were much longer. Well, I can fix that, I thought...
- Mark a staff
- Ctrl-B (now all the beaming is gone)
- Tools, Automatic Beam.
Well, duh. The Extra Long Beams were there again! I had to resort to
- Change the time to 2/4
- Mark a staff
- Ctrl-B to un-beam again
- Tools, Automatic Beam
- Change the time back to 6/4
- View. Refresh - because Noteworthy is now a bit confused.
Repeat for other staves.
So I fixed my little predicament myself, but I was a bit surprised by the behaviour. But OK, I will put it down as a feature, not a bug.
Automatic beaming can be tweaked with hidden (invisible) time signatures, but it is tedious if the time changes often. Depending how much there is to beam, sometimes it's just as easy to beam manually.
I am now beaming all over. Effortlessly.