I remember the old days when not even 8va signs could playback correctly! Then I remember Tobias Giesen issuing string harmonics with playback in TGTools. It's been great until HP in Fin2k4, but that's another thing that's been discussed elsewhere.
Now I'm facing this difficulty: Some composers (some of them my clients) use to indicate natural harmonics in strings just with the diamond shape where the string is to be stopped, sometimes with the string number sometimes with no other indication, with the confidence strings players won't mistake. I guess this could work, tho' I'd prefer at least the string number indication. Anyway, In Finale this could be easily done just entering the notes and changing noteheads, but when playback is concerned we face the problem. I've found a workaround, that I know won't work in every situation, that's create the two notes combination in layer 2, make TGTools display the diamonds and make it playback correctly, copy layer 2 to layer 1, hide layer 2 with a staff style, and finally deleting the normal noteheads in layer 1, leaving only the diamonds with 0 midi velocity (no playback) and correcting stem and ties directions and rest positioning. This is quite annoying if the whole piece is full of natural harmonics and playback is an issue. I wonder if someone could find another easier way to accomplish this natural harmonics playback or maybe Tobias might upgrade TGTools harmonics with this option: creation of harmonics might be the same: with two notes, but giving the chance to delete the lower one and leaving just the diamond with correct playback.... Thank all for your responses Rafael Junchaya _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
