Stubborn beams

[Tim Mariott]

Sherry

Stubborn beams are still haunting me. Just working through the batch of scores for our choir's Summer Concert and again find that pieces that I either key in or import from MIDI files often end up looking very different to the printed scores as notes are given beams by Notation and I then have to try to unbeam them so they look like the printed version else the choir members can get confused.

And sometimes the beams are stubborn: sometimes your fix works, and sometimes it only works if I exit Composer and restart. Sometimes I just have to delete the notes and rekey - but even then the beams may reappear. What might help is if I could set the beaming pattern to "no beams" - is this on the wish list? I am currently working on a 3/4 piece where I tried to set the beaming pattern to "6" hoping this would stop odd pairs being beamed - but that didn't work either. Any light at the end of this small tunnel?
Thanks
Tim

[Sherry C]

Hi Tim,

Sorry for the beaming bother here. The beam issue didn't make it into the last release that Mark Walsen made before he passed away (in case you didn't know about that, you can read more by clicking here), and we've been in search of a developer capable of carrying on the work since then. (more news on that later - keep your eyes peeled ).

For now, the following workaround should help you get all the notes "flagged" rather than beamed:

1. Select the notes.
2. Click Beams/Def button before using Beams/Convert to flags.
3. Notes change from beamed to flagged, and should stay that way.

Hope this helps, and thanks for hanging in there. There is light shining at the end of the tunnel

ttfn,
Sherry