Hi Noel

Maybe I should have said a better cluster tool please

I agree on the "Custom Stem" tool but the chord issue is not always easy
to make work.

My original issue was "tight" cluster of a Aflat Bflat and Bnat
It is damn hard to do a single layer CHORD with Bflat and Bnat together.
ala the need for the "cluster" 
I guess I could respell Bnat at Cflat but that is confusing.  The idea
of a tool that would allow someone to choose the notes to cluster.

Hiro's solution of triplet would work but I can see or have had a few
issues when trying that.  And the "smart shape tool" is not that good
IMHO

Again being a Finale newbie I am not trying to down cry the knowledge
and experiences of the experts but being a newbie I just find it not
that good a process and so suggest that making it user friendly should
be the aim.    Or am I wrong?

Steve


-----Original Message-----
Noel Stoutenburg on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:22 AM said:


>>Steve Currington wrote:
>> Hmm Maybe this is a good future enhancement request.
>>
>> MM -  A note cluster tool please!!
>>
>> Quite a lot of contemporary music uses clusters.
>>   
>Pardon me, but there already _is_ a "note cluster tool"; it's part of 
>the "special tools" palette.  My copy of 2k7 is in transit, so I can't 
>say for certain how to access the tool there, but in 2k6, it is reached
by

>Tools > Advanced Tools > Special Tools > Custom Stem

>In use, if one is creating a eighth note cluster, one enters the tones 
>of the cluster as a chord, uses the notehead positioning tool to move 
>the individual noteheads to the desired position, and uses the custom 
>stem tool which invokes the shape designer to create the custom stem.
I 







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