Robert Patterson wrote:
Matthew Hindson Fastmail acct wrote:
Do you know if it's possible to add a blank page to the part but not
the linked score?
Using the Finale UI there is no problem adding blank pages anywhere to a
part (and not to the score). The problem lies in using a plugin to do
this function.
The Finale UI does not permit adding staves to a part.
I have been vocal in pointing out the caveats, but only as a means of
showing how you might use the feature even if you don't have
fully-linked parts and score. I agree with David Fenton that it is a
remarkably good 1.0 effort. I only hope they continue to refine it. The
annual upgrade cycle is not condusive to refining old features.
And yet they have managed to tweak the HP function with each version
since they initiated it, so there is hope.
I think that the linked score/parts feature is such a major attraction
that it will continue to be refined, as opposed to the import-midi
function which is of little marketable value and is only important to a
small subset of Finale users.
Linked-score/parts is something that publishers will have been shouting
for, I'm sure, among others, and I bet MakeMusic will continue to make
it a major area of concern in the next annual upgrade or two.
Especially because it offers great promise for their SmartMusic program.
Soon they can build in the ability of a band-director or chorus
teacher or orchestra conductor to buy full-score files which will allow
the following:
1) printing of parts as necessary;
2) playback of the score in SmartMusic, with the student selected part
showing on screen for practice and the displayed part optionally muted
or playing for the student to play along with;
3) see 2, only using the SmartMusic microphone function, mark students
automatically for accuracy of pitch and rhythm, making student
assessment by computer quick and easy for the teacher, and leave the
potential for teacher subjectivity out of the picture altogether.
Those sorts of potential future benfits will keep MakeMusic working on
the linked score-parts feature for many versions to come, in my opinion.
I just wish that Finale could come up with some major new notation
feature FIRST, instead of always waiting for Sibelius to do it and then
see how they can reverse-engineer it and adapt it to Finale.
--
David H. Bailey
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