I recognize that the error message isn't very helpful (except to jokers),
but please see my VERY recent posting on exactly this subject
http://www.gmd.de/Mail/mutex-archive-tail/1253.html
For reasons that are buried in the sands of time, the second "1" in the
setup data
2 2 1 1 1 1 0.00000 0 0 4 20 0
is being interpreted as a sixteenth, not a whole note. So you have
specified a logical meter of 1/16.
--Don Simons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christof Biebricher [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:33 AM
> To: Silas S. Brown
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PMX funny error message
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Silas S. Brown wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I run the following through PMX, I get "Bar 1 Bad error in
> > fnote". Any ideas why? I can't figure out what's wrong with bar 1
> > but obviously there's a "bad error" somewhere! ;-)
> >
> We had this discussion just recently. The error is the measure 1/1.
> Try 4/4 as the composer has wanted it and everything is oK.
> I wish there would be always a bad error if the intentions of the
> composers are not fulfilled. (Don't be upset, it is supposed to be
> a joke.)
> Christof
