On Feb 8, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On 8-Feb-07, at 2:19 PM, Derek Kane wrote:
Greetings,
I have been playing with Finale 2007b on my PC, and I have noticed
that when
I put a retard or a tempo in the score, the HP generally ignores
it. I like
how HP interprets music (for the most part) but it is aggravating
that it
ignores markings that I purposefully put into the score. Does
anyone have
any suggestions on how to make HP observe markings?
I know HP automatically interprets things like "pizz" and dynamics,
but does it really interpret tempo markings that are not previously
set to a playback value? And I don't think that HP, as smart as it
is, would know to interpret a marking that is misspelled "retard"
instead of "ritard."
Is there a list anywhere of what exactly HP understands and what it
does with it? I don't know of one; perhaps someone knows where
these things are documented.
My advice is to click the marking in question, hit Return to open
up the edit dialogue box, and add a playback value. This will work
for sure.
There is a list - in the manual - the "Human Playback Dictionary."
It should accept the most popular Italian and German (but not
English?) expressions for tempo, including "poco a poco" and "molto"
additions to expressions.
It *should* accept them, but sometimes it just doesn't work. In
those cases, I've turned to the MIDI tool, where I can set exactly
how much of a tempo change I want.
Rich
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