Dear list members,
I finally got around to doing parts for a piece in Finale 2007 today
using the dynamic parts feature.
There were a few bugs/annoyances and wondered if anyone else had found
the same, or if they were unique to me:
* When going to the Manage Parts box, and selecting New Part, is there
any way to have the part name automatically set to the instrument name?
It was very annoying to have to retype them in for each one.
* I had problems with using the * key in Speedy to show/hide accidentals
- sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. On one occasion if I
pressed P it put the ( ) and the accidental, but nothing without.
* I found that the Measure Tool affects more than one measure if certain
settings are applied, and even worse, affects measures that haven't even
been selected. For example:
<http://www.hindson.com.au/images/Picture1.png>
was the initial setup. In the bars selected, the 1st selected bar was
set to be included in measure numbering, but the following ones weren't.
The time signatures are set to be hidden.
<http://www.hindson.com.au/images.Picture2.png>
was the measure dialog box. The only thing I changed was the width.
"Include in Measure Numbering" should have been a - , not a tick. It's
worth looking out for this.
<http://www.hindson.com.au/images/Picture3.png>
was the the result. Note that it's hidden the time signature in bar 1
of the whole piece. This is obviously a bad thing! The other thing
that happened was that all of the selected bars ended up being counted
in the numbering region, because the first one was.
* Jeez it's annoying not being able to use plugins in parts. For things
like harp pedalling or cautionary accidentals that you don't want in the
score, it is very annoying.
* I tried also extracting a part to a separate file (the 'old fashioned'
way) and the strange thing that happened there was that the last two
bars totally disappeared. Then I added to new bars at the end to
reenter the music manually - and it added the missing two bars!
* Is there any way to enter a text block (not a text expression) to
appear just in one part? I entered it off the page and dragged it in to
the part in which it was needed, but surely there must be a better way.
It's well worth checking Finale 2007 parts very closely I think.
On the positive side, I recently bought a new iMac Core 2 Duo and Finale
2007 flies on this machine, even using a dual monitor setup which
traditionally has been slow on the Mac.
Matthew
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