[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm fairly sure that this is a daft question and that I know the answer already, anyway, here goes.
I engraved the score and parts for a work which was recorded for CD today.
During the recording session, the composer had "second thoughts" about a number of things, mainly articulations in the string parts.
Now the daft question - is there any way of linking the score and extracted parts so that the changes I make in the score are reflected in the parts so that I don't have to re-extract them (I don't want to have to "re-tweak" them)
There is a way to do what you want, it's just that Finale programmers haven't figured out how to do it. :-(
David Fenton has waged a long battle for dynamically linking parts and scores, but so far it has fallen on deaf ears at MakeMusic.
To be fair, there may not actually be a way to do it, but everything David has suggested has made sense, and it can be done with documents as diverse as spreadsheets, word-processors and graphics programs where you can change a single number on a spreadsheet and all the values are recalculated, any references in a word processor or a graphics program (or both) to any numbers on that spreadsheet are updated to reflect any such changes, the next time those documents are opened. I am confident there is a way to do what you want, but as I said, the Finale programmers haven't figured out how to do it yet.
My bet is the first notation software which does that (Sibelius, Finale or the newly developping Notion software from http://www.notionmusic.com which may give these two giants a run for their money) first will eventually be the last engraving software standing. It will be such a huge time-saver that everybody using anything else will jump ship and begin using that program.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
