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Beam Over Barlines Plug-in

How to get there

Choose Plug-ins > Note, Beam, and Rest Editing > Patterson Plug-ins Lite > 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.

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