On 10/26/06 1:01 PM, "Randolph Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael L. Meyer wrote: > >> In most sequencers, this involves dragging the end of the "piano-roll" >> notation to be closer to where it technically should end, given the note >> value you want it to be once imported. Can be a PITA (and will also mess up >> the playback of the actual MIDI file to a degree), but probably less of a >> PITA than changing eighth-note-eighth-rest combos to full quarter notes once >> in Finale. > > I find that it is much more efficient to > > 1) "quantize" the endings of notes in a separate pass from quantizing > the note beginnings (up to the nearest quarter or eighth note or > whatever), or > > 2) choose a function that moves the endings of notes to the nearest > note beginning. > > You probably have only a few note endings to drag after doing these > operations. > > -Randolph Peters That's true -- I forgot that most programs have the ability to quantize endings -- it's been a while since I've had to do something like that. And my main program for sequencing nowadays is Logic, which I don't believe has functions to work on note endings in Matrix view -- certainly helped me to forget about programs which can do it! -- Mike _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
