Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?
I'd try putting in a hidden expression for playback where the dotted quarter had the same mm values as the preceding half note. Seems to me that should work. Chuck On Mar 14, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I'm trying to get Finale to play back a piece of music that goes from 2/4 to 6/8 and I want it to do dotted quarter note = quarter notebut the human playback doesn't seem to catch it. ideas/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?
On 3/14/2010 4:45 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh, so you can't just graphically have a quarter note then an = then a dotted quarter? :-/ That's the easy part. But if you use playback, it will change the tempo. If you don't use playback, it's very simple. cd On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM, dershemders...@cox.net wrote: On 3/14/2010 4:26 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I'm trying to get Finale to play back a piece of music that goes from 2/4 to 6/8 and I want it to do dotted quarter note = quarter notebut the human playback doesn't seem to catch it. ideas/ If you set your parameters right, it should be fairly straightforward. Going from q = X to q = Y is all you have to do, and then mark Y as q. = X. Just figure out what the beat is in quarter notes, and enter that in the TEMPO part of the Playback tab, where the description is [dotted quarter = Y]. Should work. cd -- http://members.cox.net/dershem/index.html http://dershem.livejournal.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?
Man, thats lamewe have all this other fluff in Finale, but something like this you have to hack around to get the playback to work correctly? On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:56 PM, dershem ders...@cox.net wrote: On 3/14/2010 4:45 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh, so you can't just graphically have a quarter note then an = then a dotted quarter? :-/ That's the easy part. But if you use playback, it will change the tempo. If you don't use playback, it's very simple. cd On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM, dershemders...@cox.net wrote: On 3/14/2010 4:26 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I'm trying to get Finale to play back a piece of music that goes from 2/4 to 6/8 and I want it to do dotted quarter note = quarter notebut the human playback doesn't seem to catch it. ideas/ If you set your parameters right, it should be fairly straightforward. Going from q = X to q = Y is all you have to do, and then mark Y as q. = X. Just figure out what the beat is in quarter notes, and enter that in the TEMPO part of the Playback tab, where the description is [dotted quarter = Y]. Should work. cd -- http://members.cox.net/dershem/index.html http://dershem.livejournal.com/ ___ 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
Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?
On 3/14/2010 4:58 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Man, thats lamewe have all this other fluff in Finale, but something like this you have to hack around to get the playback to work correctly? let me actually look at it {I tend to not do that kind of tempo changes much...] Okay - it looks like you can easily assign 'dotted quarter note = X in the Tempo pull-down, so your task should be very simple. I just had never needed that particular expression, and was not certain if 'dotted-quarter' was an option. It is. In FinWin2010b, at least. :) cd On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:56 PM, dershemders...@cox.net wrote: On 3/14/2010 4:45 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh, so you can't just graphically have a quarter note then an = then a dotted quarter? :-/ That's the easy part. But if you use playback, it will change the tempo. If you don't use playback, it's very simple. cd On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:44 PM, dershemders...@cox.netwrote: On 3/14/2010 4:26 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I'm trying to get Finale to play back a piece of music that goes from 2/4 to 6/8 and I want it to do dotted quarter note = quarter notebut the human playback doesn't seem to catch it. ideas/ If you set your parameters right, it should be fairly straightforward. Going from q = X to q = Y is all you have to do, and then mark Y as q. = X. Just figure out what the beat is in quarter notes, and enter that in the TEMPO part of the Playback tab, where the description is [dotted quarter = Y]. Should work. cd -- http://members.cox.net/dershem/index.html http://dershem.livejournal.com/ ___ 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 __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4944 (20100314) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com -- http://members.cox.net/dershem/index.html http://dershem.livejournal.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?
Well, it is true that it will do the same thing as I want, assigning the dotted quarter the same numeric value as the quarter, but ideally i think in a score you'd want the graphical dotted quarter = quarter and then when it switches back to 2/4 a graphical quarter = dotted quarter. Just seems that it was overlooked in Finale playback, and it is rather common I think... On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:02 PM, dershem ders...@cox.net wrote: On 3/14/2010 4:58 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Man, thats lamewe have all this other fluff in Finale, but something like this you have to hack around to get the playback to work correctly? let me actually look at it {I tend to not do that kind of tempo changes much...] Okay - it looks like you can easily assign 'dotted quarter note = X in the Tempo pull-down, so your task should be very simple. I just had never needed that particular expression, and was not certain if 'dotted-quarter' was an option. It is. In FinWin2010b, at least. :) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?
Eric, When I want to do this, I use text expressions, defined for playback. In this case, I'd have three expressions. One is a quarter note, which is not defined for playback. The other two look the similar--(= 000) and ( . = 000) where 000 is the value representing the tempo. These two have playback defined, so that one sets the tempo of the quarter note to the designated value, and the other sets the tempo of the dotted quarter note to the designated value. This works well with earlier playback, but should work with human playback equally well. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?
Eric Dannewitz wrote: Well, it is true that it will do the same thing as I want, assigning the dotted quarter the same numeric value as the quarter, but ideally i think in a score you'd want the graphical dotted quarter = quarter and then when it switches back to 2/4 a graphical quarter = dotted quarter. Just seems that it was overlooked in Finale playback, and it is rather common I think... The graphical version is reasonably common, and one could certainly define an expression ( d = d. ) and assign it to playback with a change of tempo by defining the playback capabilities of the expression. The reverse ( d. = d ) is equally trivial. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale