On 10 Apr 2008 at 13:42, M LAWLOR wrote: > I have noticed errant behaviour in the "Find parallel motion" plug-in before > and just chose not to use it, but I decided to try to work out exactly what > it is doing and have decided it really does not do what it is supposed to > do. I had composed additional parts for some renaissance music and thought > it would be very useful to use this tool, but when processing all staves, > the plug-in claims to find parallel movement where it does not exist; I even > removed my added parts and tried again and the plug-in found a different set > of parallel perfect intervals, although clearly these were present all the > time. The plug-in only seems to work when selecting two staves at a time - > but these have to be adjacent to each other (or is there a way to select two > separated staves in Finale 2002?)
I use Finale 2003 and have been pretty unimpressed with the plug-in as well. I think the problem with it is that it doesn't distinguish between direct and indirect parallels. It would be nice if the plug- in allowed you to sellect whether or not you included indirect parallels. > Does anyone know if it possible to get this plug-in to work properly? Well, what you have to do is examine the results and determine which ones are "real" and which ones aren't. I don't recall it ever missing direct parallels, so at least you know you get all of those, even though you have to sort them out from the thicket of indirect parallels. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
