You can (I believe) set up a staff style to hide the contents of your drum part from the MM rest generator. This will let you hide it in the part while leaving it in the score, if both are in the same file. I believe the alternate notation "Blank Notation with Rests" is what you want.
But there are some other ways to skin this cat than multimeas rests. I do a similar trick with a part that tacets to end of piece. The trick is necessary if there are meter changes, double bars, etc. that prevent the part from being combined in a single mm rest. I simply show the first bar of the tacet on the end of the line, then cram the rest of the tacet into a single staff system on the next line. Then hide that staff system with a staff style. Once it is hidden, it can be moved anywhere it is not in the way. Another option is zero-width bars, but they can be hard to edit. I used Fin08 and never have any trouble with losing my hand-edited mm rests. But I also have automatic layout turned decidedly off. (I hate it anyway.) On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Dan Tillberg <d...@tillberg.org> wrote: > Well...that was short... > > I wonder what the point is to create MM rests manually. If I have > understood it correctly, the rules that Finale applies when attempting to > create the "manual" MM rest are the same as if it is done automatically. > The quite scarce information states "In order for measures to be grouped, > they must contain default whole rests" which I guess makes it necessary > for me to delete the contents of relevant parts the score to leave default > rests, indicating to the score reader that there should e. g. be no > drumming in these measures...which is totally misleading. So again I > wonder if there is any proper method to "conclude" a lot of similar > measures from the score in the part also if these measures do not contain > the default rests. What would be really nice is if it was possible to show > a number of measures just like a totally empty measure (however keeping > measure numbering correct), in which I can write "Play 16" or whatever. > > My second question also is still not answered. I see that to edit a > certain MM rest either for symbol or number display, I gather that I need > to turn off the "automatic update" for the entire document. > > I try to understand what is then NOT taken care of by Finale when it comes > to creation and updates of MM rests. Have I understood the manual > correctly that the only thing that will not work automatically is if I > decide to enter notes in a bar earlier "covered" by a MM rest - then > Finale does not automatically break it? Or are there other caveats if > turning this option off? > > In any case, I have tried to edit MM rests also with the "Update > automatically" off. That is fine...until I want to make sure that all MM > rests are in place before starting to fine-edit the parts. Then I select > "Multimeasure rests | Create for parts/score..." and voila my edits to > existing MM rests are gone. > > I guess I am doing something stupid here but I can not figure out what. > Anyone who can explain to me how I can make sure that > * MM rests are in the right places and with the right "lengths" (number of > sequential empty measures) > * Manual edits to MM rest do not suddenly vanish > > Thanks > /D > >> Turn off update automatically. You can manually create MM rests as >> needed. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - Darcy >> ----- >> djar...@earthlink.net >> Brooklyn, NY >> >> >> >> On 13 Sep 2009, at 4:48 AM, Dan Tillberg wrote: >> >>> All, >>> >>> I have been explicitely asked by my drummer to try to keep the drum >>> part >>> down to two pages, which is understandable and should be possible for >>> parts where there might be long periods of slash notation without >>> any cues >>> or other tempo/rhythm markings. >>> >>> My first attempt was to actually delete the contents of the relevant >>> parts >>> of the drum staff, leaving default whole note rests and let Finale >>> create >>> multimeasure rests that I intended to modify (see below). I am not >>> perfectly happy with this solution since it looks in the score as if >>> the >>> drums actually shouldn't play in this section. >>> >>> So my first question is what would be the "industry standard" way of >>> dealing with this given that you for instance want to conclude 12 >>> bars in >>> the space of one bar and write something like "Play 12 bars" or >>> similar? >>> >>> My second question relates to the edit of the multimeasure rests I let >>> Finale create: after having created the rest I go into Page mode for a >>> part, select the bar containing the multimeasure rest, choose Edit >>> Multimeasure rest (either by right-clicking or from the Edit menu), >>> and >>> for instance enter 999 in "Start numbering at ___ measure" (to >>> "remove" >>> the number so that I can write something there instead) and/or >>> changing >>> the symbol. >>> >>> After switching to score and switch back to the part the changes are >>> gone. >>> The number is back and the symbol is per default (from Document >>> settings). >>> The same thing happens if I do the changes, save and close and >>> reopen the >>> document. >>> >>> So the second questions is: how could I manipulate a specific >>> multimeasure >>> rest so that the changes persists? I guess it might have to do >>> something >>> with the "Update automatically" in the documents options | >>> multimeasure >>> rests but to deselect that one I guess would create the situtation >>> that NO >>> MM rests at all would be automatically updated which would be...not so >>> good I guess. Or...? >>> >>> Working with Finale 2010 on Win Vista. >>> >>> Thanks >>> /D >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
