At 8:22 AM -0500 12/04/03, Aaron Sherber wrote:
Hi all,
I've got two trumpet staves which I'm combining into one Tpt 1/2 staff. When the two parts are written in such a way that what I want is layer 1/layer 2, the process of moving things around is very easy.
But when the two parts are, for example, moving jointly in thirds, I have not yet found a quick way of doing things. I have tried Implode Music, but the main problem there is that there's something in the Quant Settings that keeps screwing things up -- a series of syncopated quarter notes, for example, gets rewriten as alternating quarters and tied eighths instead of maintaining all the quarter notes. And things like cautionary accidentals keep getting dropped.
Is there something I'm missing, or is this all Finale provides?
Aaron,
I can't help you with your current problem, but I'm guessing that
you are combining the staves so that the conductor's score will be
vertically more compact? If that is the case, then may I suggest an
alternate working method that will save time.
Create the staff as Tpt 1+2, enter the content as you want, add
articulations, etc, and then print your conductors score. Save it
under a new name (I add "Parts" to the name) and then run
Tobias Geisen's TG Tools plugin "Smart Distribution of Multipart
Staves." This plugin creates new staves (both called Tpt 1+2, so
you have to edit the names) but most importantly, distributes
everything among the new staves in an incredibly intelligent way,
including preserving unisons (!) or not, according to whether you have
written "Solo" or "1." or "a2" or
something similar on the staff! It also distributes and aligns(!)
dynamics, hairpins, and the like. It will also change layer 2 parts to
layer 1 on the new staff in an intelligent way. This is a lot faster
than combining staves. In short, this plugin has saved me MANY
hours.
Then you can extract your parts, with no hassle. One thing to
watch out for: if you have measures that contain no notes, only rests
(say a half rest, a quarter rest with a fermata, then another quarter
rest; or else a quarter rest for a pickup measure), then TG tools will
empty those measures, and you will have to enter them again on the new
staves.
I recently finished 8 arrangements for full orchestra, and the
score and parts would have taken me about twice the time without the
TG Tools plugins. And it's cheap, too! There are other useful plugins
in the set as well, but that one has paid for the set several times
over by now.
Go to
http://www.tgtools.de
to pickup the demo version, or to buy it. Tobias doesn't pay me
to advertise for him, I do it for free because his plugin is so
great.
Christopher
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