Steven Gruver wrote:
I'm running WinFin2006c and I've been using Finale since version 3.5, however I've never really had to use the percussion maps until now. Here's my dilemma..... I've imported a marching drumline part (either from Finale or midi) into Finale, but the sounds are not loaded up correctly to play back as a "marching drumline". My question is, what is the best way to get that part "converted" over to drum sounds through the Staff Tool?
It has been my experience in such situations that you're in for some rough sailing, but it's possible.
First off, you need to copy that staff, in case things get messed up beyond belief, so you have the original notation.
Second, you need to define that staff as percussion, then go to the percussion map dialog, select one (I find GM entry and Playback fine to work with, but you might decide to set your staff to bass clef and then use bass clef entry and playback, I'm really not sure which one will work best in your case) and then begin to define the staff positions and the sounds, making sure to check the Include This Note box once you get the sounds and noteheads defined for the lines and spaces you are using.
If you're VERY lucky, that'll be all you'll need to do and you can delete the extra staff you made the copy on. You might have to visit a graveyard at midnight of a full moon and swing a dead black cat around your head clockwise 3 times after which you spit twice on a witch's grave before this will actually work first attempt.
If you're not lucky, when you look at the percussion staff you've just defined, all the notes will be transposed way the heck off the staff, and you'll have to play around with mass-mover and transpose them back to their original staff positions, at which time they might actually playback as they're supposed to.
If you're extremely unlucky, even transposing them won't help and you'll be better off deleting the whole staff and then trying to copy from the good copy you made. sometimes this works, sometimes this doesn't.
If you're one of the very unfortunate folks who can't make any of this work, you'll have to erase everything on that staff and start it all over again, defining it from the start as a percussion staff, assigning the notes, etc. and then enter the entire drum part all over again, note-by-note.
Or you might decide at this point to give up computer notation altogether and enter an entirely different field, such as nuclear physics, where everything is easy to understand compared to Finale's Percussion Maps. :-)
Hope this helps! -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
