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Help! 5-lets and duplets

Does Noteworthy composer have the ability to write 5-lets and duplets and if so how??

Re: Help! 5-lets and duplets

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Duplets are relatively easy, if you mean two notes in the time of 3. Just dot the two notes (e.g., 2 dotted eighths take up the same time as 3 regular eighths). This may seem like a hack, but a number of composers have regularly written duplets this way, including Britten and Bliss. (Maybe it's a British thing?)

Quintuplets are harder, and the only current way I know of to write them in NWC is definitely a hack. For a detailed description I don't feel like repeating here, see https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=1949.msg10643#msg10643.

Many, many people have asked for better native n-tuplet support in NWC. It probably wouldn't hurt to add your name to the list by going to the Wish List page.