On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jim Williamson wrote: > Have you made sure that "Measure Expressions" is checked in those staffs > inside "Staff Tool"?
I don't want (nor should I have) the measure expressions displayed on each staff. This is keyboard music - one dynamic expression between the top two staves is all that is required. Also, the only option in the staff tool is for what items to "display" and makes no reference to it affecting playback. However, in setting measure expressions on in each staff - which looks ugly, the velocity is changed accordingly. But, that's not the way piano or organ music is supposed to look. There is only suppose to be one dynamic marking between the two staves (piano music) and between the two top staves (organ music) when the manuals and pedals are all the same dynamics. Even in orchestral music I sometimes only show the dynamics on the top stave of an instrument family. It may not be standard notation, but it helps keep the score from being cluttered in some cases. It seems to me that a measure attached expression with playback defined (velocity, in this case), should apply to all staves in that measure for playback. Why should I have to display the expression on all systems? I'll accept that for orchestral/band music I probably should have the expression shown on all staves, but this simply is not the way keyboard music works and there needs to be a way for playback to honor that in keyboard music, with or without human playback. I guess I'm stuck with having to use note attached expressions for the top staff and hidden note attached for the other two staves. That's twice the time if I only had to enter one dynamic expression. Oh well.. James Gilbert _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
