Thanks to Aaron for his succinct plug of Mass Copy. Along with TGTools Align/Move, Mass Copy is the plugin I use most often.
Aaron correctly noted one advantage of Mass Copy over Finale's built-in Mass Edit function--the ability to copy from one source staff to an entire block of target staves in one pass. Another huge advantage, most particularly for hairpins, is Mass Copy not being barline-oriented. Mass Copy allows you to copy a hairpin from (e.g.) beats 1/2 in the source to beats 3/4 in the target. Recently I've been working on a piece in which a 7/8 pattern is overlaid repeatedly onto 4/4 time. There is a passage in which all the brass instruments have p<f held notes each time. With Mass Copy, I was able to enter this in one instrument one time, then copy it in a single pass to all instruments both vertically and horizonatally repeated, even though the passage is not repetitive within any given 4/4 bar. SFAIK, such a copy operation is simply not possible using Finale Mass Edit. FWIW: Another feature of Mass Copy is that when it copies a note expression, the note expression retains the same vertical position in the target as the source. Finale's Mass Edit instead maintains the same relative distance from the note. While neither way is correct 100% time, Mass Copy's way is usually much closer. This feature is not so relevant starting with Fin04, unless you are using manually-positioned note exps. > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Sherber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 7, 2005 04:01 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Plu-gins or features > > At 10:24 PM 01/06/2005, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > >On Jan 6, 2005, at 10:08 PM, Stephen Onwood wrote: > >> Why can't we apply hairpins to multiple staves simultaneously, or at > >> least copy and paste them? 'Twould be nice! > >> > >You can copy and paste them. Set Mass Edit to copy only > >Measure-attached smart shapes. Drag and drop at will. > > Better yet, check out Robert Patterson's plugin collection at > http://robertgpatterson.com. His Mass Copy plugin makes the process of > copying various articulations, smart shapes, expressions, etc. far easier > in many ways. For starters, using Mass Edit you can only copy from a source > staff to a single target staff at a time. With Robert's Mass Copy, you can > copy from a source staff to a whole block of target staves in one pass. > > This is one of the plugins I use most often in my Finale work. > > Aaron. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
