Originally Posted By: Gordon Scott
I can only imagine that it's to hide subtle timing effects from the notation, i.e., when someone is playing ahead of or behind the beat.

I've been going through some songs with likely rest-related issues and I see an example of that kind of behaviour, where I have 'ghost' rests within triplets (in Girl From Ipanema).

I suspect what may really be wanted here is an option to minimise rests below a particular threshold, rather than just on or off. Just my feeling ... I haven't thought at all through other possible consequences or confusions that might arise by doing that. [Edit: ... like even more confusion over when and where my rests have gone].

Edit 2: I've also found "forced rests" or "hard rests" on p205 of the manual. That's obviously how I've managed to correct the ones I've corrected.


Edit 3: Which then leads to the question of why import from MusicXML, with clear rests in the source, does not automatically insert hard rests? -- This probably wants a resolution.

Last edited by Gordon Scott; 04/10/23 11:58 PM.
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