[Finale] Changing Garritan expressions

2014-11-03 Thread Daniel Wolf
Finale 2014c Windows. I have a passage for violin, alternating arco and pizzicato. I don't usually use playback, but the player this piece is intended for would like an audio file. Rather than having a mess of arcos and pizz.s, the default notation for Garritan in Finale, I'd prefer to

Re: [Finale] Changing Garritan expressions

2014-11-03 Thread Jan Angermüller
The human playback needs the arco text to recognize that it has to send the appropriate MIDI data for arco technique. If you delete the arco text, it won't recognize it anymore. The easiest solution is: instead of deleting the arco/pizz text, use a hidden font. Then the text won't be displayed in

[Finale] doubling question

2014-11-03 Thread dershem
Working on a piece where there is an optional double from Bari sax to Bass clarinet. The original has both parts on the same line - stems up and stems down, which seems pretty efficient. Question is: How to copy the notes in layer 1 to layer 2, and transpose only layer 2 to

Re: [Finale] doubling question

2014-11-03 Thread Robert Patterson
Assuming you don't care about playback: 1. Edit-Move Copy Layers (copy layer 1 to layer 2) 2. Switch to layer two. 3. Select Show Active Layer Only 4. Transpose. If you need playback, you may be able to disable playback for layer 2. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:56 PM, dershem ders...@cox.net

Re: [Finale] doubling question

2014-11-03 Thread Peter Taylor
That would do the job asked for, but it would be written with an incorrect key signature. I have serious doubts this is the right thing to do. I presume the notes in Layer 2 are a cue and there's a separate Bass Clarinet part with these same notes transposed for Bb. Any cue notes written on

Re: [Finale] doubling question

2014-11-03 Thread dershem
On 11/3/2014 8:16 PM, Peter Taylor wrote: That would do the job asked for, but it would be written with an incorrect key signature. I have serious doubts this is the right thing to do. I presume the notes in Layer 2 are a cue and there's a separate Bass Clarinet part with these same notes

Re: [Finale] doubling question

2014-11-03 Thread Peter Taylor
No - no separate part for the Bass clarinet. This is a big band chart, and I dont want the book any more bloated than it already is. cd Aha! In that case I would have the Bass Clar notes on a separate staff with Bb transposition and apply the Hide Staff style to all the tacet measures.