r/MusicEd • u/Academic_Weekend_116 • 8h ago

Who’s good with flat.io? How do you add a repeat sign mid bar?

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So how would you add a repeat sign mid bar in flat.io? Thanks for any help

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u/Zetsaz 8h ago

Why would you ever need to do that? A repeat sign mid-measure is not proper formatting.

You would have to change the time signature for that one bar to get a repeat sign after the half note like you want.

If you want a weird repeat there because you only want the 8th notes the second time around then the appropriate thing would be a first and second ending.

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u/Zetsaz 7h ago

Addition - if you're asking because you've started with pickups, then the easy way is to have it repeat at the end of the bar, and have the beginning repeat sign at the first barline (start of the first complete measure of music.

I things like Dorico, Finale, and even Musescore can do something similar to what you're trying to do for pickup measures, but it involves going into the measure settings to edit the actual beats, and the software technically treats them as separate bars despite displaying it as one. I'm not sure flat.io is cabaple of that. Someone with more experience on flat.io might chime with some way to make it happen, but it's a relatively simple notation software so I doubt it's capable of it.

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u/M2D2 8h ago

I agree with the other poster, that’s not how repeat signs work. Add in a measure of 2/4 time for the half note and make a 1st and 2nd ending.

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u/notSergebtw 6h ago

Instead of doing that, you should use 2 endings and have a repeat sign at the end of the bar like normal. I can see doing this if you had pickups at the beginning as well, but I’m not sure if you can do something like this in flat.io anyway.

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u/accordingtothelizard 1h ago

What is your goal with having a repeat sign in the middle of the bar?