'Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY whacked when insert triplets!'

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Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY whac... - dcalfine, 21 Feb 05:33PM
     Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - Richard Vitale, 21 Feb 05:44PM
         Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - Mike Lyons, 21 Feb 06:31PM
             Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - Laurence Payne, 21 Feb 07:22PM
                 Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - Bob Morabito, 21 Feb 09:59PM
     Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - dcalfine, 21 Feb 11:17PM

Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY whacked when insert triplets!
Posted by dcalfine - 21 Feb 05:33PM
Hello. I am trying to insert 16th note triplets on one line of my score. Software will NOT let me do it without completely trashing my score layout. PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks so very much.

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Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY whacked when insert triplets!
Posted by Richard Vitale - 21 Feb 05:44PM
See:
http://www.rpmseattle.com/of_note/create-true-equidistant-measure-widths-in-a-sibelius-score/
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Here is the basic setup:

(1) Create a new “instrument” at the bottom of your score (can be any non transposing staff). Rename this instrument staff “Spacing Ruler” or similar.

(2) Fill this “Spacing Ruler” staff with a string of identical short notes. (Pitch is not important. The actual short note value you choose will vary depending on your spacing requirements. For this type of spacing, typically, these notes will be of shorter duration than any “real” notes in the score.)

(3) Change the notehead type to Silent (you obviously won’t want these notes playing back!)

(4) Select this staff from beginning to end and hide the notes (CNTRL-SHIFT-H or CMND-SHIFT-H):

(5) Once the notes are silent and hidden, use Hide Empty Staves so this spacing control staff will no long show in Page View of the score (you can always see this hidden staff in Panorama View). If you respace the music at this point, you will see that the hidden staff is in control of the spacing because its smaller note values prevail even though the staff is hidden.

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Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY whacked when insert triplets!
Posted by Mike Lyons - 21 Feb 06:31PM
Could I diffidently suggest that you don't worry about your layout until after you have finished writing your music? Because Sibelius' layout is dynamic, it changes slightly every time you add a note to a staff. Worrying about the layout before you have finished adding notes is just giving yourself unnecessary stress. Treat it like you would a word processor. You don't worry too much about how the words are fitted onto a line until you have finished writing your novel

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Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY whacked when insert triplets!
Posted by Laurence Payne - 21 Feb 07:22PM
Without seeing the score, we can only guess. But is there enough ROOM in the bar for a lot of 16th triplets? Notes take a certain amount of space.

Also, have you tried Select All followed by Reset Note Spacing? Sibelius layout is dynamic, but sometimes it needs a nudge!

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Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY whacked when insert triplets!
Posted by Bob Morabito - 21 Feb 09:59PM
Pls attach a Sib file that demonstrates the problem--file size limit is 900k.

Thanks Bob


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Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY whacked when insert triplets!
Posted by dcalfine - 21 Feb 11:17PM
Thanks to all for the answers. I finally got it to cooperate enough to make a compromise. Sometimes it's ornery and over my head. Thanks again everyone.

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Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY whac... - dcalfine, 21 Feb 05:33PM
     Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - Richard Vitale, 21 Feb 05:44PM
         Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - Mike Lyons, 21 Feb 06:31PM
             Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - Laurence Payne, 21 Feb 07:22PM
                 Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - Bob Morabito, 21 Feb 09:59PM
     Re: Sib. 6.x: HELP! Score staves go COMPLETELY ... - dcalfine, 21 Feb 11:17PM