I think this question applies to just about any more recent version of Finale. 3-staves of music (organ music), each assigned to a different MIDI channel, same patch assignemnt. The lowest 2 staves have 'display measure expressions' set to off (so only the top stave shows measure expressions). Human playback is turned off.
When I assign a measure expression, assigned to all staves, with playback velocity, it only seems to affect the top stave, not all three staves. Why is this? Shouldn't a measure assigned expression's playback options affect all the staves in that measure? If I want different playback options (velocities) for each stave, I would use a note attached expression on each stave. Right? In looking at the raw MIDI data (from a save to midi file), the top stave is assigned a velocity of 49 in measure one, but the other two staves have been set to 64. This doesn't make any sense to me. Why aren't all staves assigned a velocity of 49? I even tried two versions with human playback enabled - one with velocity & continuous data enabled, and the other set to ignore velocity and continuous data (the expression playback info). Both of those were the same as the non-human playback (above) except that the third stave (which had lots of sustained notes) started with a velocity of 85. There were considerable volume (Controller 7) changes in stave 3 - over 50 in the first 2 measure. There were some volume changes in the other two staves (that were not present in the non-human playback version), but not very many. So, it appears that even human playback doesn't set the velocity based on measure expressions. What am I doing wrong? How do I get one dynamic expression with playback velocity to affect all three staves (or even 2 staves in piano music). Yes, organ music often has different dynamics for each stave, but often you only put one dynamic marking that is good for all staves. James Gilbert _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
