Beam Over Barlines Plug-in

How to get there

From the Plug-ins Menu, choose Note, Beam, and Rest Editing, Patterson Plug-ins Lite, and then Beam Over Barlines.

What it does

This plug-in allows you to automatically extend beams over a barline as shown in the figure below.

To use this plug-in to beam over a barline, do the following.

• Choose the Selection Tool.
• Select the region including the notes you want to beam over the barline.  
• From the Plug-ins Menu, choose Note, Beam, and Rest Editing, Patterson Plug-ins Lite, and then Beam Over Barlines. Notes on either side of the barline are beamed together. To remove beams created with this plug-in, choose the Beam Over Barlines/Remove plug-in which is also located in the Patterson Plug-ins Lite submenu.

Note that hidden tuplets created while generating beaming over barlines may corrupt the Human Playback performance in regions where the Beam Over Barlines plug-in has been applied. See Playback Settings dialog box for more information regarding Human Playback.