On 30 Jul 2005 at 6:56, dhbailey wrote: > now > we have to prepare THREE files -- one for printing, one for playback > via GPO and another playback file to share with others who don't have > machines powerful enough to use GPO.
I don't quite understand why you need a file for playback that is different from your file for printing. How, exactly, does prepping a Finale file for playback mess up the printing? That has always been my goal, and is, perhaps, why many people can't understand my objections to the way Finale works. Most of my needs for subclassing come about precisely because I want things that look identical onscreen to work differently in different contexts. Right now, the only way to do that is to multiple the definitions of the identically-appearing items, which leads to difficulties in managing the definitions (because of the multiplicity of identical items; I do understand that the annotations for expressions helps this, but that still leaves articulations). I can't imagine forking my files for playback, because much of my playback preparation causes me to change my editing -- it's how I figure out where editorial dynamics and articulations are necessary. Having to then go back and transfer the editorial additions into the printed score would be a complete pain, and something I just don't see as necessary in any way. If you're going to use a different file for playback, why not just save your printable score as MIDI then use a sequencer to tweak playback? Why use Finale at all for creating a playback file if you're going to fork your playback from the printed score? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
