Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

[Darcy James Argue]

On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 10:49  AM, Aaron Sherber wrote:

At 10:20 AM 11/07/02, Darcy James Argue wrote:
>> Yes. I don't spend a lot of time on playback details, but it's very
>> disconcerting to play back a piece that's supposed to use tom-toms and
>> hear instead whistles and guiros and the like.
>
>What about turning off percussion playback enitrely?

But then I don't hear *any* percussion, which is no good either.

It's never bothered me, but fair enough -- everyone has different expectations of playback and mine are extremely minimal.

>Use staff styles. Make the staff regular notation by default, and
>apply the "percussion map" staff style only to those sections that
>require X noteheads.

Yes, I've been trying staff styles for this. The problem is that any percussion map staff style will use half note noteheads for whole notes, and any 'regular' notation style won't playback correctly. So there seems to be no way to get correct display and correct playback.

Yes, you're right here -- but using staff styles will at least allow you to get the percussion staves to *display* correctly. And if playback is that important, you could create an extra copy of the score for playback purposes.

I think the best thing would be for percussion maps to give you options for three kinds of noteheads -- closed, open with stem, open without stem.

Yes, except the "open without stem" notehead effectively only works for whole notes -- double whole notes would require a *fourth* character. [Personally, I never use double whole notes, so it doesn't bother me, but this might affect others.]

The other best thing would be a plugin that searches for whole notes in a region and displays them with whole note noteheads. <g>

Kludgy, of course, but probably not that complicated to do if you can convince someone there's a worthwhile plug-in there. Meanwhile, let Coda know what you want (if you haven't already written them).

- Darcy

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