Tempo doubling on playback

Hello Sherry/Tim,

I have downloaded Tim's file and can confirm the behaviour which he describes, and also note that the file plays back correctly when played from the beginning.

I can also say that I have encountered a similar behaviour myself quite recently. Its my belief that this has something to do with repeated sections. I was working on a file which contains repeated sections ( as does rogers.not), and when editing the tempo map, to try and put in rall's and fermatas, I was finding that when commencing playback from mid song,to test the tempo changes, the tempo changes were not happening where the graph said that they should be, but everything played correctly when commencing playback from the start of the song. I will try to locate where this was happening and perhaps attach a file tomorrow, if I can reproduce the symptoms.

It was like when starting playback from mid song, the bar count in the tempo map, did not match the bar number of the current measure playing back.

Hope that this helps

Regards,

[Sherry C]

Hi Barrie (and Tim),

Thanks for the additional insight here! That points the way to a workaround that hopefully will work for a rehearsal file, if not for the "pretty print" version.

Tim, I just tested this and it works. Hopefully it will be a workaround that you can use for practices anyway, although it does lose your Rehearsal marks (ouch - sorry). Open your file and use File/Export as MIDI, and be sure to check the "Write out repeats" option, then you'll get a full-length rehearsal file that will play the proper tempos (yeah, it should be "tempi", but that sounds funny ) at the proper places, even if you stop and restart playback midway through the file.

Thanks for the added insight Barrie - I'm adding this to the "fix it" notes.

ttfn,
Sherry

[Tim Mariott]

Sherry/Barrie
Synchronised solutions! I had just carried out the same test by doing a MIDI export. This does give me an adequate workaround provided I remember to use the MIDI file rather than the Notation file in the white heat of our rehearsals. I will have to make a note of which of my current pieces have repeat marks and tempo changes - or perhaps best to set up a "rehearsals folder" with all MIDI versions. And hopefully this gives a clue for an eventual fix.
I am sorry to read the news about Mark Walsen: clearly a guy with a love of performing music.
Best wishes
Tim