[Finale] Number of accidentals in non-standard key signatures

[Andrea La Rose]

Dear Collective Wisdom,

I am reviving an old project using 72-edo. I have almost successfully set
up Finale 2012 (Mac OS Lion) with appropriate accidentals, that is, I have
11 accidentals programmed and ready to go, but only can access the first 7
in both directions. Is this a "feature"of Finale or am I missing an
important step? Thanks for your help...

cheers,
Andrea

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Re: [Finale] Number of accidentals in non-standard key signatures

[Daniel Wolf]

Yes, Finale non-standard key signatures are limited to 15 accidentals:  
 from -7 to +7, including 0 (i.e. a natural).  In my own microtonal music,  
using a range from 9 to 31 or so tones/octave, I have never had to use  
more accidentals than that, but it seems to me to be an arbitrary  
limitation and increasing the number ought to be on the request list  
(alongside my old favorite request for lifting an arbitrary restriction:  
non-powers-of-two denominators in displayed time signatures.)

So, for the time being, for 72 equal with playback, you can either (a)  
work within this limitation in the non-standard key signatures and just  
have seven accidentals up or down, with tuning external to Finale, which  
is not enough to deal with #s and bs modified microtonally, a serious  
restriction AFAIC, or (b) use note-attached expressions, with pitch bends  
generated note-for-note within Finale.  To be honest, I would personally  
probably go the note-attached expression route, which not only gets around  
the accidental limit but also avoids running out of available midi note  
numbers in playback.

Daniel Wolf
Frankfurt
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