As a side bar --and it probably won't suit everybody but ---I duplicate the staff/score tool dynamics, reduce their size, enclose them in < > and set to brackets don't print - hot key 'em all and put in default file.
Crude but effective dynamics. Jerry Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 11:22 AM 7/11/02 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >OK, I've entered flutes, obs, clars. The General Midi clarinet is TOO > >LOUD, so, per advice, I go to the MIDI tool, select the staff, choose > >Continuous Data from the Midi menu and enter controller 7: volume, > >click OK, choose Percent Alter from the Midi menu, enter 50% and > >click OK. Nothing happens. Playback is totally unaffected. What now? > > Two ways -- invisible (easy) and graphic (more specific & harder): > > 1. > Choose Midi tool. > Select the staff. > Choose Midi Tool, Edit Continuous Data > Choose controller 7, volume > Enter (say) 64 > Since volume stays until you change it, entering the value on the first > measure will remain unchanged until it encounters a change. > > 2. > Choose Midi tool. > Double click the staff you want. > The Midi window will open above the staff. > Choose Midi Tool, Edit Continuous Data > Choose controller 7, volume > In the Midi window, click-drag across the area you want to affect. > Choose Midi Tool, Set to > Enter (say) 64 > Since volume stays until you change it, entering the value on the first > measure will remain unchanged until it encounters a change. > > That should do it. > > The reason nothing changed: When you choose percent alter, it starts with > zero, so it remains unchanged. Once there's a value in place, you're set to > go. Keeping track of volumes is tricky in this window, as the only place > you'll see them is where a change occurs; otherwise, no value will be shown > in the 'bar chart' presentation. > > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
