How to extend a note from one bar into another?

garry-s wrote on 1/19/2017, 1:42 PM

Samplitude Music Studio 2016, 22.0.3.26 (DP3) running on Windows 10.

I am trying to use the Midi Editor to extend a note from one bar into the next. In the screenshot it is the red note in the Midi Editor, starting in the second half of bar 96 and extending through bar 97. (In music terms, this is two tied notes - a minim in bar 96 and a semibreve in bar 97.)

But in the Track Editor, you can see that the note stops at the end of bar 96 and doesn't extend into bar 97.

When I click on the note in the Midi Editor, it sounds for the correct length - ie nearly six beats. But when I play the track, it stops at the end of bar 96 - as you would expect from the Track Editor.

Why do the Midi Editor and the Track Editor show different things? Is there some setting somewhere which stops notes from extending from one bar into the next?

How can I create one single, continuous note that extends from one bar into the next?

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Mick70 wrote on 2/5/2017, 9:58 AM

Sorry for the late answer I just joined the forum. Have you tried the glue tool? active this and hover the mouse arrow over the note you wish to extend and a tie with a + will appear, click the note and it will tie to the next.

 

garry-s wrote on 2/5/2017, 11:11 AM

Thanks, Mick. I'm using Music Studio seriously for the first time, and I hadn't seen the glue tool. That looks like exactly what I want.

However, next time I had my midi keyboard attached, I solved the problem in the traditional way, by playing an actual note of the appropriate length. However, the next time I was using the Midi Editor, I found that I was able to extend notes beyond the ends of bars.

It seems that sometimes I can and sometimes I can't. And when I can't, this seems to be cured by closing the Music Studio program and then starting it again. In short, it seems to be inconsistent - the kind of behaviour that, in my computer programming days, would make me look for an uninitialised variable. But I haven't checked it carefully, so don't start a code review on the basis of this :)

Thanks again for your response - in future I'll read the manual more carefully before asking!