I have a question for the Sibelius users in the house.
This recently came up at a BMI Jazz Composers Workshop session -- the participant had a 3/4 measure containing four eighth note quadruplets, filling the measure. The other participants pointed out to her that this was incorrect -- it should be four _quarter note_ quadruplets. She replied that Sibelius wouldn't let her enter quarter note quadruplets, and that the notation she had played back correctly (i.e., 4-over-3) in Sibelius.
I was kind of incredulous, because that's not exactly an uncommon rhythm, and while it's staggering that Sib notates it incorrectly by default, I was pretty sure there must be a way to override Sib's ignorance and get the correct notation -- four quarter note quadruplets in the space of three quarter notes.
Well, perhaps it's just my ignorance of Sibelius, but I couldn't figure any way to get it to work! I kept getting an error message every time I tried to enter quarter note quadruplets in a 3/4 measure. It was just as the participant had said -- Sibelius forces you to use incorrect notation (eighth note quadruplets that fill an entire 3/4 measure).
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a workaround? I mean, we all bitch about Finale, and we've all looked enviously at Sib's dynamic parts, etc, but this is a pretty egregious error with no obvious workaround.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
