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gastone73
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Date Joined Sep 2008
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Posted 7/3/2010 1:31 PM (GMT -5)

Hi
I'm having some troubles in creating measures without barlines in order to create same measures of music with no times as in the two example in attachment.
I need to write a series of notes for improvisation (as in the first example) and a free cadenza as in example 3.
Sorry if my english is not perfect

Thanks in advance

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Bill Stevens
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Posted 7/3/2010 1:34 PM (GMT -5)

The best way to deal with that first example is to make the measure 30/4. For the other example, just count the beats.

There is a plug-in called JW Time Sig that is very helpful with this. You can jam a lot of notes into a measure and then run the plug-in and it will assign the proper time signature to it. It is an ancient plug-in but amazingly it still works in 2011. It is immensely helpful for chant or cadenzas.

Bill

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Post Edited (Bill Stevens) : 7/3/2010 12:46:56 PM (GMT-5)

Zuill
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Posted 7/4/2010 1:29 AM (GMT -5)

If you don't want to change the meter but just want to hide the barlines, you can do that with a staff style if it is for just one staff, or with the measure tool (invisible barline) for all the staves.

Zuill

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Vaughan
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Posted 7/4/2010 12:20 PM (GMT -5)

Unfortunately spreading this out over more that one measure will create spacing issues between the notes over the [invisible] barline.

Vaughan

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