d. collins wrote:
In a polyphonic mass, I need to insert two short Gregorian intonations. I know the Medieval plug-in, but it costs some 250 bucks, and I have less than one line of music... Are there any other less expensive ways (fonts, plug-ins) to do this?Yes. I've done it in both of two ways.
1) Use round notation instead of square, and the conventional staff instead of the four line chant staff. Set the length of the measures to the length of the phrases, and hide the time signature by using "display as". Select the custom stem tool, select the measure, and all the notes in the measure, and hide the stems.
2) If I must have square notes, I use the square note fonts from St. Meinrad's abbey, in Indiana, US., which map neums to the keyboard. St. Meinrad's is a text font, and will not play back, but you use it in text blocks to provide the square note line.
The St. Meinrad's fonts are not free, but they are not expensive, either.
I don't know your time frame; I can forward examples of both, but not until next week.
ns
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