On Feb 6, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Rich Caldwell wrote:
I was skeptical at first, and downright irate because of the issues
linked parts. I never thought I'd want to use it as it currently
exists. However, I recently did my first score (large orchestral)
using linked parts via a "parts score" and found it a huge time
saver. True, it's another file I have to use, but it's only one
more file, not one for every part. Plus, I get the advantages of
making changes to all parts at once, such as titles, page number
positions, and of course music edits.
The biggest problem is in cases with more than one part per staff,
but I managed to work through that and will be faster next time now
that I've learned the tricks.
I'm nervous hearing of rare bugs, however, which cause weird things
to happen in the parts. Hopefully MM will fix them within years.
I just heard from Scott Yoho at MM that they have acknowledged a bug
I've encountered where staff styles will get misplaced in some parts,
messing up some mm rests as well. This seems to be a result of the
misbehavior of the Mass Copy tool when copy staff styles is
included. It is not difficult to repair, if it does happen.
Here is an excerpt of the email response from Scott (who never fails
to respond courteously).
Here's what we've learned:
If "Staff Styles" is checked in Items to Copy, drag copying measures
that precede a staff style shifts Staff Styles that follow the source
measures the same relative distance in the Part (even though measures
containing Staff Styles were not part of the selection.) Copying
measures where no Staff Styles follow to a destination where Staff
Styles follow causes Staff Styles to disappear (since it also copies the
absence of Staff Styles.)
Here's the quickest way to correct this problem in affected files
(assuming that the Staff Styles in the Parts should match the Score):
1. Select the Staff Tool.
2. Ctrl+A or Cmd+A to highlight all measures in the affected Part.
3. Context click a highlighted measure and choose "Reset Staff Styles to
Score." Repeat these steps for each linked part that has this problem.
Additionally, this problem can cause multimeasure rests to become
broken. After Reseting Staff Styles to Score, select the Measure Tool.
From the Measure Menu, choose Multimeasure Rests > Create for
Parts/Score. Check all of the Parts and click OK.
If there are Staff Styles in a document and you plan on copying
measures, you can prevent this problem from happening in the first place
by following these steps:
1. Select the Mass Edit Tool.
2. Mass Edit Menu > Items to Copy...
3. Uncheck "Staff Styles".
Hope this helps,
Chuck
On Feb 6, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
No way. 2007 and linked parts, for Jazz Band, is way faster. Did
you read the manual about how to do the parts correctly? Did you
also get Chucks great emails a couple of months ago about doing it
as well? Did you look at the templates included?
It is a huge time saver once you figure it out. It isn't totally
obvious how it works, but with some trial/error you can get the
hang of it. After you get a good layout for one part, you apply it
to the other parts you want. Boom, done.
You can also extract the parts to files like 2006 does if you
don't like the linked parts.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chuck!
Greetings from another bassist.
I have been going nuts with Finale 2K7 since I installed it and
am now
going back to 2K6. The parts extraction feature nearly killed me!
I have a
steady client for whom I do Big Band copying, and it almost
doubled the
time to do the part extractions and lay out the parts. I would
really be
much happieer if the allowed you to toggle ON/OFF the linked parts
feature. Also, I cannot utilize all of the Garritan GPO and JABB
libraries
(I bought the full packages) with the new Kontakt player in 2K7
because it
only recognizes the Finale/Garritan bundled sounds; so, the 2
things I use
this software for the most, I'm better off in 2K6! Any similar
thoughts?
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