Suggestion
In real music world, we often use dotted quarter note as the beat unit in ternary pieces.
In FL Studio, beat unit will be eighth note if you set a ternary time signature (6/8, 12/8...).
My suggestion is to use dotted quarter note as the beat unit in FL Studio too for ternary time signatures, instead of eighth note.
More details
I'm working on a piece with a tempo of 103 on the dotted quarter note.
Working on the same piece with a tempo of 309 on the eighth note is quickly annoying.
I found two workarounds:
- Use time division instead of time signature (with 3 steps per beat and 4 beats per bar)
- Add a percussion loop pattern to simulate a dotted quarter note metronome with a note every 3 beats
Since I transcribe existing music more than I compose, the first one is far from ideal in my workflow.
Most of the time, I begin by writing a MuseScore sheet music first, then export it to midi and import it in FL Studio. So I don't start from scratch.
When switching to time division, the duration of existing notes is not changed and it is twice too long, as you can see here :
The second one is convenient but it's still a workaround.
For me, eighth note should be a step and dotted quarter note a beat, shouldn't it?
And maybe there are some drawbacks I didn't notice yet.
Use dotted quarter note for ternary beat unit
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Use dotted quarter note for ternary beat unit
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