Bill, There are a few situations where a tied note will play back as two different pitches (generally they play back correctly, though.)
Is one of the notes altered? If you have F# in one bar and tie it to Fnat in the next bar, it will play back as two different pitches (which should be obvious) but it will appear correctly. Likewise, if you have HIDDEN an accidental (rather than changing the pitch!) then Finale will still play it back as, say F#, whereas it appears as Fnat, so you could have two different notes sounding. If one of the notes is in a different layer, then the tie will not play back. I get this in piano and choral music sometimes. If playback is essential, then I can set the note to zero velocity and add in a hidden note that plays back correctly. If you are changing systems, and have two staves consolidating down to one (like split violins coming back to one staff) then perhaps there is a tied note that doesn't have a partner to tie to officially on the same staff, though it appears correctly through the magic of staff optimisation. Although if you have an F# tied to a Gb over a key change, it should play back properly because it is the same MIDI pitch number. Remember that Finale uses MIDI to play back, and is constrained by what MIDI can and can't do (although there are sometimes some workarounds that MakeMusic has incorporated to solve some problems.) Ties sometimes go nowhere in correct music notation, for example, when a passage is played the second time only on a repeat, and a note is tied to the second ending. Obviously, there is no note in the next bar (first ending) to tie to. Also the example I gave before where two staves consolidate down to one in a split part. I definitely would NOT want MakeMusic deciding whether I should or should not be able to tie over to nothing! It's bad enough when I have to have a tie BEGINNING a measure when there is no note in the previous measure; that's a bit of a kludge. Christopher ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:59 Subject: [Finale] Playback engine has bugs To: finale@shsu.edu > I've noticed when I tie across a bar line, the playback engine > ignores > the tie as if they are two separate notes. Was this ever fixed? > > Why does it allow you to tie a note to a rest? I never see this > in real > music performed. > > Also, when you change the pitch of a tied note, it does not try > to > change the pitch of the other notes. It leaves the tie in place > in > between two (or more) unlike pitches, and sounds them > separately. In > other software packages, you can change the pitch on ANY of the > tied > notes, and it automatically chages all the others. > > A SLUR would normally be used in place of a tie between unequal > pitches. As far as I know, unequal pitches are NEVER tied together. > > Yours; Bill Sinclair _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
