Have you made sure that "Measure Expressions" is checked in those staffs
inside "Staff Tool"?

Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 10:54 AM
Subject: [Finale] Measure expressions & general playback


> 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
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