My experience with the linked score/parts shows me that for
single-part-staves it is a very good thing and I am hopeful it will only
get better.
My experience with multiple-part-staves shows me that as soon as Finale
filters which notes appear on the single-staff parts that it is possible
to end up with, Finale needs to have all musical editing done on either
the original score only or on another linked part which contains the
original multiple-part-staff.
For example, it will be possible to have a score which has 2 flute
parts on a single staff, and in the create parts dialogue, to create 3
linked parts: 1) flute 1-2 (contains all the music in the original
staff); 2) flute 1 (with the voicing options set appropriately); 3)
flute 2 (with the voicing options set appropriately). All the page
layout issues can be accomplished on the second and third parts as I
just described them, but all the music entry issues (correcting wrong
notes, adding or deleting notes, etc) has to be accomplished on the
first part I just described.
And Chuck found out just as I had done, that extracting the second and
third parts as I describe them above allows the editing work to move
ahead very nicely.
But editing the music in the first part isn't too difficult, and all
those edited changes will show up on the second and third parts (before
they are extracted, of course).
It's all a brave new world that I see a lot of great potential in. But
as with so much of Finale (and indeed with all applications I've ever
used), it forces the user to learn to think in the program's ideal
workflow. We're all so new to it that it's hard to discover just what
that work-flow is.
David H. Bailey
Chuck Israels wrote:
Thank you Dennis, I will try this.
As I was working yesterday, I finally got frustrated enough to stop the
process and extract the parts. The extracted parts retained the work
that had been done with the linked parts and inherited the voicing
characteristics that had been set up in the parts management dialog. In
balance - this element of the new system seems to be well worked out and
is more than worth learning to use.
But as soon as the parts were extracted and I went back to working in
individual documents, things began to go smoothly and quickly. I don't
know if this is because the linked parts system is still in its infancy,
or if its characteristics simply function in ways that slow down my work
flow, but I have spent the past two months stubbornly trying to make it
work only to be mightily relieved the moment I finally abandoned it.
YMMV. I am reminded to be careful what I wish for, I might get it!
I so much want this to work, but I'm beginning to be convinced that it
is counterproductive for my work style, and that the time required to
open and edit a few documents to make corrections is trivial compared to
the time I have spent attempting to bend this method to my needs.
Chuck
On Sep 30, 2006, at 11:33 PM, dc wrote:
Chuck Israels écrit:
I am now trying the method David describes below for the first time,
and I find that it works pretty well but for the fact that the beams
are un-editable in the parts. (Special Tools will not move them.)
Since the beam placement is done in the score with two or more notes
on the stem, the placement with only one note should be different,
and it doesn't look good to me. You cannot apply Paterson Beams
plugin in the part (or any other plugin) and going back to the score
where there are two notes on the stem doesn't solve the problem of
how things will look in the part. Am I missing something?
You can apply Patterson Beams (and most other plug-ins) if you use the
new version of his plug-ins: you open the plug-in in score view,
switch to part view, and apply it. Quite annoying, especially for
plug-ins with settings, such as PB, because you can't simply run it
without having it "open". And then, you waste a lot of time going from
score to parts and back.
This is probably the most irritating "feature" of linked parts...
Dennis
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