Patricia Spedden wrote:
1. For dynamics/voicing control, is it possible to assign each staff (generally 2 staves, sometimes 3) to different channels after a piece is completed in Finale?
Yes,
If so (or if it has to be assigned when setting up a project), how is this done?
When setting up a project, in the Instrument list (selected from the
dropdown list from "Windows" in the main menu bar. If you want to
change a channel "on the fly", define a playback, e.g., "MIDI channel
2", select the "playback tab", under "type", select "channel", and
insert the number of the channel in the "set to value" box.
2. Is it possible to assign each layer to different channels for complete
dynamics/voicing control? If so, how? If not, how does one make one voice
(not staff, necessarily) louder than another when it's all for piano?
You can assign each staff to different channels, but I'm not sure you
can assign two layers in the same staff to different layers. There are
a couple of ways that to accomplish; one would be to use cross-staff
notation, so that even though notation looks like it's in one staff,
it's actually in another. Another way would be to put the notes for
each layer in a separate staff, and superimpose the staves; since the
staves are actually separate, they can be defined to playback through
different channels.
ns
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