Mark Q. Simos wrote:
Hey Finale Wizards:
I am in the middle of a piece for solo cello and am finding myself
frustrated in some extended double-stop passages where the melody is
played high on the string using as a drone an upper string sounding, at
times a unison, at times an upper, at times a lower tone. I would like
the notation to visibly show the two voices, with unisons showing double
note heads, and with repeating drone-string notes beamed together, and
slurs marked on the changing melody line. I've explored various
combinations of the Finale Special Tools menu to do this but, though
they seem to supply every arcane option one could want, the tool is
still getting in my way. Even when I try to force direction on the beams
of the melody line and then add the drone lines in later, either as a
second 'chord' tone or using split stems, Finale seems to automatically
switch the beaming between the voices (and flip the slurs on me in the
process) so that the result looks jumbled and chaotic. The command to
"reverse" stems seems to not help as it attaches the stems to the
"wrong" side of the notehead, not really what I'm after. Any suggestions
would be welcome - I really have tried to explore the options on my own
as best I could!
Have you tried using different voices for the drone and melody?
cd
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