Changing the gap/hold durations of fermatas in playback

You can change the gap and hold durations of individual fermatas in playback, independently of your project-wide settings. For example, to make a single fermata last longer without changing its notated type.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

  • If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing Graphic Editing button is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

  1. Select the fermatas whose playback gap/hold durations you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate/deactivate the following properties, individually or together, in the Holds and Pauses group:

    • Hold duration %

    • Gap duration %

  3. Change the values in the value fields.
  4. Optional: To make the selected fermatas play back without gaps, activate Hold only.

Result

The gap and/or hold durations of the selected fermatas in playback are changed.

Tip

  • You can also edit the playback of individual fermatas in the Tempo editor.

  • You can change the default playback gap/hold durations of all fermatas project-wide, including setting different values for each type of fermata, in Playback Options > Timing > Pauses.