First of all, we are talking about a workaround. No workaround is as
convenient as not having to work around.
Second, we are talking about different time signatures where the
barlines align, so effectively it is a shorthand for tuplets anyway, right?
Third, my contention is that for a host of reasons you are better off
with an underlying meter that is the same in every staff. Finale has
more defects than just editing smart shapes if you have different
underlying meters. So the extra effort of a workaround is possibly worth
the trouble.
If you grant those, I can show you a way to drastically reduce the pain
of the workaround.
Suppose you have 4/4, 6/4, and 7/8 as your aligning meters. Since 6/4 is
the longest meter, choose that as the underlying "true" meter. Then
enter all your notes in that meter for all parts. They will not align
properly, but it won't matter. After you have finished entering the
notes (or the notes for the passage), you can use Mass Copy (in one pass
per staff or independent meter) to copy an invisible tuplet to the
beginning of every bar to make them align properly.
If you need to hear the proper playback before you finalize the
notes/rhythms, etc., you can always create true ind. key sigs then
change them to the other way when you are ready to create the final
edits. Under no circumstances is it necessary to enter the tuplet on
each bar in Speedy. Also, once it is done, you can edit at well, so long
as you don't replace the first entry of the bar with an entry that lacks
the tuplet.
One possible source of confusion may be that, unlike Finale's Mass Edit
tool (last I checked), Mass Copy can copy tuplet assignments without
copying the entries they are assigned to.
You may have a work process that is antithetical my appraoch. For me, I
have found that using true independent key sigs is the road to
perdition, so I have learned to avoid it by giving only the appearance
of independent key sigs. But perhaps in later versions of Finale ind.
key sigs is less problematic. YMMV.
--
Robert Patterson
http://RobertGPatterson.com
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