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 > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
