At 06:55 AM 6/9/05 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: > >On Jun 8, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > >> I need to take a lengthy section of mixed note values and rhythms, and >> change all of them to the same (smaller) note value, filling out the >> note's >> remaining value with rests. (Because of the variety of mixed values, >> it's >> not as simple as making certain notes staccato, saving as Midi, and >> reloading.) > >For a minute, I thought the Rhythmic Subdivisions plugin might help, >but no, because it doesn't add rests; it just changes the length of the >notes.
Yup. I was there. And also to other plugins that might have a secondary feature. >But why doesn't your trick of staccato, save as MIDI, re-load (perhaps >mixed with Retranscribe from Mass Edit with different quantize values, >applied to Partial Measures as necessary) work? That's what I would >try. It does. But I can re-enter the entire score faster than adding bajillions of articulations to some notes and not others, changing quantizations, etc., etc. Plus I still have to deal with dotted rhythms that have to be changed by hand. I was hoping, if not a plugin, that maybe there was even a slightly different entry mode with the latest Finale. We got Speedy Insert a few versions ago, so I hoped we might have a new change/fill option (something like: cursor over quarter note, hit '3' and watch it change to sixteenth note + rests.) Somewhat OT explanation: Pretty much as usual, I'm composing. I work a piece out in my head, scribbling on a cheat-sheet of music paper to remind me what to do at the computer. I circle bits & pieces in the notes with big arrows and Post-It notes. Then I 'engrave' from mental image to screen, where copy/paste/drag/drop/alter shortcuts are very handy. Overall, music programs lack compositional tools, so I'm jumping around with Finale, Sonar, Midimage, AMG, etc., for some help and using Midi as the transfer format. For compositional tools, I'm not sure if Finale Script is the thing to look at, but it sure would be great to be able to do scut-work things like shorten+fill, split notes in multple pieces (such as turn a quarter into eights or quintuplets), expand values and tupletize, one-step parallel motion, explode respecting instrumental ranges, shift areas right without changing note values, make the score a single measure (to avoid Finale's measure orientation), etc., etc. The canonic utilities were really a helpful addition. A good chunk of compositional labor is the busywork of applying theoretically simple actions to paper. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
