On May 4, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Owain Sutton wrote:
You can enter the half-sharps and whatnot as
articulations,
and they will be automatically placed and spaced (except for chords,
yikes!) though you won't get microtonal playback. (Frankly, the
barriers involved in correct microtonal playback of harmony
instruments
is so great I'm not sure it is doable in normal MIDI.
Individual notes
in single lines, of course, are fine.)
Yes, I meant key signature ;)
This sounds like a fudge masquerading as a well-designed
implementation.
Entering them as articulations doesn't sound very helpful when dealing
with transposition, for instance.
I'm not trying to sound difficult here, but how exactly would you like
microtones implemented, and how would they transpose? I have only dealt
with quarter tones, and I would rather spell them manually on
transposed parts than depend on Finale to spell them correctly. The
articulations-as-quarter sharp or flat actually work very well with
metatools; very fast and dependable. You DO have to check transposed
parts, of course.
I'm trying to imagine the interface, and I'm failing. Maybe shift + for
half sharp? Then what would 3/4 sharp be? Maybe shift + on a note that
already has a sharp? But then there are all kinds of other divisions,
like 1/3 sharp or flat, and how would you enter those?
What more do you need than length,
endpoints, and
horizontal placement that can't be done with note
expressions? Can you
be more specific?
The Staff Style stem settings don't let you change the normal stem
length or the stem line thickness. These can only be done globally,
which I've found to be an issue in the past.
The endpoint away from the notehead is the stem length. It can be
changed in a Staff Style.
It's true that you can't make the stems THINNER, but you can make them
thicker by overlaying a note expression or articulation that is set to
position automatically. You could even make thin stems by hiding the
stems completely and adding a thin stem line as an expression. Once
again, if you set it up carefully to auto position, you could work very
quickly from then on. I could see how you could hold down the thick
stem articulation metatool, drag over an entire passage, and when you
release the mouse, every note has a thick stem.
Christopher
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