At 12:05 PM 5/20/06 -0400, Mark Q. Simos wrote: >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!
I *think* I understand what you want. I do main entry in Speedy, so bear with me if you use another tool. I just did a guitar piece for lots of double unisons, and I first put in (say) a D and then enter the E above on the same stem, and make it double-flat. If you have a tie to add, do it now. Then tapping the "9" key will give you the enharmonic, and you have a double unison D. That will then behave normally, with the heads on each side of the stem. Beam your notes as appropriate. Speedy "L" will flip the stem. Use the first note of the group to flip, so there's no conflict later if you lost track. Enter the other layer, and re-flip beams as needed. Reverse any slurs as the last step. Most everythng should be in place now. If you use reverse-stemming for anything, you can use a Special Tools notehead mover to put the notehead where it belongs. Is that what you were getting at? Perhaps you could post a sample few measures on a website. Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
