Composers/arrangers frequently forget or doesn't notice they need to do this extra step. (Finale happens to make the same mistake). I've actually witnessed a number of rehearsals where a portion of the band or orchestra came in a measure late because of this problem. Pickup measures to appear correctly by default, but add a shortcut (Ctrl+0) to create full measure rests. Just so long as it is possible to go back and forth. So, I would propose the ideal behavior is that the act of changing the actual time signature of an empty measure should automatically insert ordinary rests to fill the measure, but that after that, the measure should behave normally - you can select and delete those rests to replace them by a full measure rest, go back and enter normal rests again, etc.īut if the default were left as it is - full measure rest remains and you need to enter the normal rests manually - that wouldn't be the end of the world. And I must admit on at least one occasion in a multi-part score I've forgotten to change the full measure rest in the pickup to a quarter rest in my parts. I suspect for most people, though, that won't be true - pickup measures will be the only case in which they will ever change actual time signature. I think for me personally, the latter situations are probably more commo, but I deal with relatively complex music in which the need to change actual time signature is not all that rare. I have no solid evidence as to which situation is more common. So whichever way the default goes, I want it to be possible to convert to the other, and back again. But there are any number of situations where somewhere in the interior of a piece I might need to change actual duration for some reason or other but still show the full measure rest. In the case of an ordinary 4/4 song that just happens to have a one beat pickup, I need that first measure to have actual duration 1/4 and a quarter note rest. My impression is that I want different behaviors in different situations.
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