At 06:08 PM 6/9/05 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: >Cubase operates by note start and note length, so it is a very >simple operation to make all lengths the same.
I see what you're getting at. Yes, Sonar's interpolate function (search/replace with a name I never understood) can do it. Duh for me. >I see what you mean. Often I know that a note is going to go in a >certain measure position for a certain instrument, but I don't know yet >what is going to come before or after it in the measure. Doing it this >way in Finale is a huge pain, which is why I do all this kind of stuff >on staff paper with a pencil. Yup, I retire to the dock by the swimming hole when I hit a Finale incompetence. But last year, the wind blew the entire working manuscript into the water. Good thing, too. It was terrible. Considering it a sign, I started over and wrote "Icecut" and had a great premiere with the Vermont Symphony. >I have complained about this next thing often enough in the past on >this list, but it bears on the topic here. Because of the idiom I >arrange in most often, I would like to put in the chord symbols first, >then add notes around them. It helps me keep my place, among other >reasons. Unfortunately, chords have to attach to the notes, which >aren't in yet, and even if they WERE, I have to jump through hoops to >put two chords on a whole note, two beats each. I have taken to putting >my chords in Layer 4 (which I hardly ever use for anything else) >attached to half rests (or quarter rests if I need them) so that I have >them there to look at. I wish chords could attach to measure positions, >like expressions do, instead of to entry items. This is a situation where ownership would be a great thing ... and we'll never see it in Finale. Instead of all the folderol about attachment worries, just create the stuff and drag the ownership links into place when they're needed. Or change ownership whenever. Or just plain *see* what owns what. I don't make much headway with this suggestion, though. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
