Changing the playback duration of arpeggios

You can change the duration of individual arpeggios in playback, independently of your project-wide settings.

The duration of arpeggios is expressed as a fraction of the notated rhythm of chords. For example, an arpeggio on a quarter note (crotchet) chord with a note offset value of 1/2 lasts an eighth note (quaver), whereas with a note offset value of 1/8 it lasts a 32nd note.

Prerequisite

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

Procedure

  1. Select the arpeggio signs whose playback duration you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Note offset in the Arpeggios Playback group.
  3. Change the playback duration of the selected arpeggio signs by changing the value in the value field.
  4. Press Return.

Result

The playback duration of the selected arpeggios is changed. This overrides your project-wide settings for the duration of arpeggios for the selected arpeggios.

Example

Figure 1. Arpeggiated chord with a note offset value of 1/8
Figure 2. Arpeggiated chord with a note offset value of 1/2