Hi Craig, You should certainly be using the Change Instrument feature. For starters, it greatly simplifies part creation, and allows for mid-system instrument changes. There is this one playback issue I described (which I don't recall being a problem prior to Finale 2014) but certainly the benefits FAR, FAR outweigh this one particular drawback.
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Apr 5, 2015, at 11:37 PM, Craig Parmerlee <cr...@parmerlee.com> wrote: > Sorry I can't help because I don't use Mac. > > But this raises a question for me. I wasn't aware of this Change > Instrument feature. Whenever I have had a player with doubles, I have > set up a staff for each instrument, put them all together in manage > parts, then use Hide Empty Staves so that there is only one staff on the > part. That is straightforward and has always worked fine for me. > > My question is whether this Change Instruments feature is significantly > easier (assuming it all works correctly). > > I guess the Change Instrument approach would end up with fewer > instruments in the score, which would be a benefit. > > Basically this is a question of what is the best practice. > > > > On 4/5/2015 12:27 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> I should clarify that I mean "use the Change Instrument feature to create an >> instrument change mid-piece," rather than selecting the entire staff and >> changing the instrument for the entire duration. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - DJA >> ----- >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >> >> On Apr 5, 2015, at 12:23 AM, Darcy James Argue <djar...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Can anyone else confirm that if you use the "Change Instrument" feature in >>> Finale 2014 to switch to an instrument double, the new instrument does not >>> respond to any dynamics or hairpins? (N.B. I have Human Playback on and am >>> using Garritan instruments.) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> - DJA >>> ----- >>> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
