separation of closely-adjacent notes

[iandg]

Thanks for your reply, Sherry. The first three I had tried. The fourth ("Two-notes chords in a staff that has mostly solo notes should be sequenced as two separated notes.") I hadn't, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Since it's one screen back from the action (as you say, available by the Setup route, but not in the Format>retranscribe screen), I can't tell whether it is actually in effect.

The 'Convert to solo notes' (actually on the Staff menu) does work, but rather patchily. Sometimes I am able to isolate/select a single instance and it retranscribes correctly as a grace note and main note. Sometimes it doesn't. And on other occasions again, I am asked to select the staff, and it then processes the whole staff too enthusiastically, rendering some straight notes as grace notes.

To be fair, it is a very 'dirty' bit of playing. Clearly the player has in places not released notes promptly, and my impression is that the resulting ties complicate the 'conversion'. So probably you shouldn't waste much time on it - it is one of those instances where slow manual editing instance by instance is the only way. You can also see that though the pulse is correct, the time-signature isn't, and I have made a start of re-editing that but not completed the process. I think the whole thing should really be in 6/8 - ie a sort of blues shuffle.

Cheers

Ian