Am I being over-simplistic in suggesting the ideal 'improvement' on selected playback;
Highlight (or check-box staff) required staves- select; playback. Listen! That way one could hear- e.g. 2nd Trumpet, viola, 3rd Trom and tambourine if one wished! (Bizarre thought!) Or any other combo. Highlight/select is often used in other applications- cannot our programmers nut this one out? It completely cuts out mute/unmute/instlists etc. Pre-selected lists are fine for obvious choices such as all strings, trumpets, low brass etc. But suppose I want to hear the oboe line against 3rd and 4th horns. Mmm- that works- now- what about same oboe line against viola and 'cello? OK now add horns-etc. I'd probably want to hear this type of selection just once- and never again. By the time I'd worked out the current selection process I'd have forgotten why I wanted it! Cheers Keith in OZ Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhbailey Sent: Saturday, 6 May 2006 8:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: > >> In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the >> sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section. > > Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/unmute all, > etc. > While possible, it isn't always that easy, depending on the size of the score. I would think it would be easier to include staff lists in the playback dialogue, so it would be quick and easy, once the staff lists are defined, to simply select which staff lists to have play back. That way, in setting up the score we could define our staff groups (flutes, clarinets, saxes, trumpets, horns, trombones, violins, strings, whatever) and then simply be shown a check list. Currently, while it is certainly possible, we have to mute/solo upwards of 20, 30 tracks at times. And since they may well not be contiguous, scrolling around the list isn't all that quick or easy. I think "easy" in this case is more in the nature of the scores one works on most of the time. Quartets, quintets would be easy. Operatic scores with full romantic-orchestra instrumentation is a whole lot harder to do. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/333 - Release Date: 5/05/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.5/333 - Release Date: 5/05/2006 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
