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Multi Time signatures

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I am working on a composition that uses 3/4, 6/8, and 4/4 in three different parts,and I've Sibelius 4. Please advise

You mean at the same time ?

Sibelius can't handle barlines in different points, Noteworthy Composer can but...

See this thread Different Keys and Time Signatures and the pic I attached on page 3.

EDIT:

You can hide all barlines and set fake ones at any point :dunno:

This is why Finale rox. Tsk Tsk.

You mean at the same time ?

Sibelius can't handle barlines in different points, Noteworthy Composer can but...

Yes it can. Its just not very elegant.

If Finale can (which it probably can), it's probably worse. I'd imagine the playback would be messed up.

  • 1 month later...

It depends on what you're doing.

If you're talking 2/4 6/8 then playback is fine.

anything different than something along those lines is headache to playback. but the display is beautiful

The way I'd do it is just have the main time signature be 3/4 or 6/8, then beam the notes in those meters. Then for 4/4 just write it as a 4 over 3 (a..quartuplet?)

Anyway, I don't know how you'd do that in Sibelius but in Finale you can show different time signatures, and then there's a tool for converting 4 quarter notes into a quartuplet

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