The puzzling part for me is that others are reporting that they can't replicated it. Here's how to get it to happen:
I can replicate it.
I'm in Fin Mac 2k2 and my experience matches yours exactly. I too am finding that Finale always spaces the blank notes. Like you, I remember it being different in previous versions, though in my case I don't actually have an old file in front of me to prove it. I think you're right that something has changed, probably when blank notation staff style was introduced.
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On Mar 17, 2004, at 11:17 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Am I the only person who prepares files for playback in this fashion? I'm pretty sure I got this technique from recommendations made by members of this list.
I use invisible layers for playback sometimes. It can be tricky, and there are times when I have to think carefully how I want to organize it, but I've yet to run into anything where there was a problem so long as I proceed in an orderly fashion.
For tremolos, I use TG's tool. For classic appoggiaturas, I redefine the note lengths with the MIDI tool. For cue notes, I turn off the playback in the Edit Frames box.
The closest thing I have to your situation is when I have a piece where the piano accompaniment has repeated chords that are displayed on the page with repeater beams through the stem instead of spelling out the repeated chords. (Not sure what the technical name is for those beams.)
For a piece like that I put all the playback notes into a single layer for which I turn off spacing in the layer options. Everything in that layer is seen and not heard; everything in the visible layer is heard and not seen.
When working on a file like this, I enter all the visible stuff first, then copy the entire visible layer into the invisible playback layer, then make the necessary changes to the playback layer. That way, all of the playback for the entire piece is coming from invisible notes, not just in some bars.
Usually, I'll have the other two layers be visible and play back as shown. If necessary, I could instead have two visible layers and two playback layers. If I were to need two playback layers AND a third visible layer, I'd have a problem, but so far that has never come up.
mdl
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