RE: [Finale] Moving notes in a chord to another layer

2002-11-02 Thread Tobias Giesen
> TGTools has this, in Modify | Special > Modifications | Alter Smart Shapes. Yes indeed, and in the TGTools INDEX you will find it listed under slurs (the "replace" item): Slurs * convert measure-attached to note-attached: Modify>Slurs * convert to ties: Modify>Slurs * increase slur height

Re: [Finale] Moving notes in a chord to another layer

2002-11-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:13 PM 11/02/02, Andrew Stiller wrote: >On a slightly different subject: it would be valuable (to me at >least) if there were some way to change an existing slur to a dashed >slur, and vice-versa. Plugin, anyone? TGTools has this, in Modify | Special Modifications | Alter Smart Shapes. Aaron

Re: [Finale] Moving notes in a chord to another layer

2002-11-02 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 4:13 PM 11/02/02, Andrew Stiller wrote: [answering Colin Broom] >>Is there a way of >>processing the entire staff so that the top note remains in layer 1, while >>the bottom note shifts to layer 2 (or any other layer for that matter). >No. I have been asking for this for many years, both from

Re: [Finale] A new revelation re chord accompaniment

2002-11-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
Title: Re: [Finale] A new revelation re chord accompaniment At 5:37 PM -0500 11/02/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/2/2002 12:51:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, if you go into the Instrument List (under the Window menu) and you click on that lit

Re: [Finale] chord playback

2002-11-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 9:22 PM + 11/02/02, Marcus Girvan wrote: Since the topic has got round to chord playback can I repeat a query that I made last week which was greeted with a stunning silence so perhaps noone knows the answer. The message read:- 'I find that Finale's chord analysis problematical in the ext

Re: [Finale] A new revelation re chord accompaniment

2002-11-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 3:27 PM -0500 11/02/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found out that when you anchor the chords to a note in a given staff, it uses the SAME INSTRUMENT for the accompaniment. So the only way to accompany a flute passage with piano chords (for example) is to have a separate staff with piano, and an

Re: [Finale] A new revelation re chord accompaniment

2002-11-02 Thread Blueyedtam64
In a message dated 11/2/2002 12:51:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, if you go into the Instrument List (under the Window menu) and you click on that little triangle in the column: Staff Name, then you can create a new instrument especially for Chords I tried that,

[Finale] chord playback

2002-11-02 Thread Marcus Girvan
Since the topic has got round to chord playback can I repeat a query that I made last week which was greeted with a stunning silence so perhaps noone knows the answer. The message read:- 'I find that Finale's chord analysis problematical in the extreme. It always seems to find the most obscure co

Re: [Finale] Moving notes in a chord to another layer

2002-11-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
Is there a way of processing the entire staff so that the top note remains in layer 1, while the bottom note shifts to layer 2 (or any other layer for that matter). Colin Broom. No. I have been asking for this for many years, both from Coda and from the plugin developers. Nobody seems to giv

Re: [Finale] A new revelation re chord accompaniment

2002-11-02 Thread Jari Williamsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I found out that when you anchor the chords to a note in a given staff, it > uses the SAME INSTRUMENT for the accompaniment. So the only way to accompany > a flute passage with piano chords (for example) is to have a separate staff > with piano, and anchor the chords

Re: [Finale] A new revelation re chord accompaniment

2002-11-02 Thread Thomas Schaller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found out that when you anchor the chords to a note in a given staff, it > uses the SAME INSTRUMENT for the accompaniment. So the only way to accompany > a flute passage with piano chords (for example) is to have a separate staff > with piano, and anchor the chords to

[Finale] A new revelation re chord accompaniment

2002-11-02 Thread Blueyedtam64
I found out that when you anchor the chords to a note in a given staff, it uses the SAME INSTRUMENT for the accompaniment. So the only way to accompany a flute passage with piano chords (for example) is to have a separate staff with piano, and anchor the chords to that. Kind of clumsy, but that'

Re: [Finale] Large Format Print Question

2002-11-02 Thread Patsy Moore
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl Dershem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Hello, all. >I just (after many years) got a new printer for use in many areas - an >Epson 1520. Very nice printer, but ... I printed out a sample part, and >it was backwards. >Let me clarify: >Opened a 2 page part in Page

RE: [Finale] Cross-staff notation

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Good
Finale as of 2003 does not support cross-staving of rests directly, except through workarounds like the one sugggested so far. Please write to Coda asking them to include this feature. It seems like it wouldn't be that hard to add if more people needed and requested it. Let them know if this would

Re: [Finale] Moving notes in a chord to another layer

2002-11-02 Thread Harold Owen
Colin Broom writes: OK, I'm sure this has been asked before, but... Let's say I have a series of 2-note chords on one staff. Is there a way of processing the entire staff so that the top note remains in layer 1, while the bottom note shifts to layer 2 (or any other layer for that matter). The

[Finale] Moving notes in a chord to another layer

2002-11-02 Thread Colin Broom
OK, I'm sure this has been asked before, but... Let's say I have a series of 2-note chords on one staff. Is there a way of processing the entire staff so that the top note remains in layer 1, while the bottom note shifts to layer 2 (or any other layer for that matter). The only way I can think o

Re: [Finale] Cross-staff notation

2002-11-02 Thread Carl Donsbach
Larry, Hide the rest in the upper staff part. Put rests in the lower staff, hide those except the last 8th. -Carl --On Saturday, November 02, 2002 6:06 AM -0500 "Eden - Lawrence D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear List, I wrote a piano part that includes cross staff beaming. This worked f

Re: [Finale] How to sepaerate chordal accompaniment from melody

2002-11-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 10:55 PM -0500 11/01/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to avoid deleteing the chords whenever possible, since I at some point would like to put them back into the score. And of course, I don't want to have go through that process every time I make any changes. As far as muting the acco

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[Finale] Cross-staff notation

2002-11-02 Thread Eden - Lawrence D.
Dear List, I wrote a piano part that includes cross staff beaming. This worked fine, except I need an eighth rest at the end of the measure and FinaleMac (2000c) insists on placing the rest in the right hand. I want the rest to appear in the left hand only. What should I do to fix this? Lar

Re: [Finale] chord playback

2002-11-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 04:50 AM, Klaas de Jong wrote: I presume that when you erase all the note number boxes (for every suffix, so a little work has to be done), no chord will ever playback anything, even if playback is activated in whatever dialog box. Well, you know what they s

[Finale] chord playback

2002-11-02 Thread Klaas de Jong
Hi, One option seems to be unspoken of in this very long discussion. When you really never want to use the playback of chords and want to get rid of the somewhere existing midi-information you'll have to erase the playback information for the suffix, which you reach when you manually put in the cho