Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Chuck Israels
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

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread dershem
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

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
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

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread dershem
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

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
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

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
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

Re: [Finale] quarter note = dotted quarter note playback?

2010-03-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
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