Human Playback already recognizes fermatta measure expressions placed
above the right barline. Unfortunately, it doesn't interpret them
correctly -- it acts as if a fermatta is attached to beat one of the
measure, instead of inserting a pause between the last note of the
measure and the next note of the subsequent measure.
Probably what's going on is that Human Playback can't figure out
where in the measure the fermatta is positioned, so it just guesses
"beat 1." I'm CC'ing Robert Piéchaud about this -- perhaps this can
be fixed in HP for Fin2007.
- Darcy
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On 15 Nov 2005, at 1:49 AM, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:54 AM, John Howell wrote:
Andrew is quite correct that it is a standard devise, and it's a
shame Finale hasn't implemented a way to enter it without kludgy
workarounds. I always take it as meaning an unmeasured pause, but
one of less that a full bar's length. A fermata over a whole
rest, on the other hand, indicates a Grand Pause with a length of
more than a full bar's length. But I don't know how others would
interpret it.
That matches my interpretation as well. I agree that it would be
nice for Finale to implement this. I understand that the idea of
time existing outside of a measure element goes against its data
structure, but they could still invent some sort of tag-on to
accommodate it.
Lacking that, a plug-in could be devised that would automate one of
the procedures outlined in this thread.
mdl
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