On 11 Feb 2006 at 18:32, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 11.02.2006 dc wrote: > > I have a run of 256th notes in a Couperin piece. Can I get my five > > beams in Finale? > > Do you want 5 beams, or 256ths? The latter have 6 beams, if I count > correctly, and those are not possible in Finale, afaik. > > 5 beams are possible, but you may have to change the duration for each > note manually. You can do that with MassEdit (Change Durations). Enter > them as 64th first, than change the duration to 50%.
128th notes can be entered in Speedy from the keyboard, using Ctrl-0 for the rhythmic value on Windows (I won't speculate on the Mac's equivalent shift key). If you enter 128th notes, and then do what Johannes suggests, reducing the duration by 50%, you get 256th notes, with 6 beams. I then tested applying duration 25% and then 25% again. I ended up with the appropriate beams and notes of the appropriate length, and that is the limit, 10 beams, which would be a 4096th note, or 1 EVPU in length, which is 1/64th the length of a 64th note. So it seems to me that there are no real practical limitations to Finale in this regard, though there is a limit of 1 EVPU for the length of a note. But if there's any music that uses 4096th notes, I've never heard of it! -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
