Hi Mark--I know you asked for easy, hope this helps--this is straight
from the 2008 manual..
Hope this helps--
Bob Morabito
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Swing Playback
To create swing playback (for the entire piece)
This method is for generating swing feel from an otherwise “straight”
score. (If you’ve used HyperScribe to record a performance, you can
“capture” the swing feel. Make sure Retain Note Durations is checked
in More Quantization Settings and Play Recorded Note Durations is
checked in Playback/Record Options (see Document Menu). When you
playback, you’ll hear the music with your original feel, including
swing, played back.)
Note that you can also apply a Swing feel using the Jazz Human
Playback Style which can be configured in the Playback Controls.
Swing is not available with all Human Playback styles.
1. From the Window Menu, choose Playback Controls. Playback
Controls appears.
2. Click the expand arrow. The Playback Settings dialog box
appears Controls expands, offering additional controls.
3. From the Swing popup menu, choose Standard.
4. Click on Play.
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To create swing playback (for sections of the piece)
Use the Apply Human Playback plug-in to apply Human Playback’s swing
interpretation to a region of your score. To define swing manually
with the Selection Tool, do the following:
1. Choose the Selection Tool image\Selection_Tool.gif.
2. Select a region of measures.
3. From the Plug-ins Menu, choose Playback, then Apply Human
Playback. The Apply Human Playback dialog box appears.
4. From the Apply a Defined Style, choose Jazz (or another style
that incorporates swing).
5. Choose Apply Specific Elements and click the Select button.
The More Settings dialog box appears.
6. From the Swing popup menu, select the desired swing percentage.
7. Click OK and then Apply. Swing playback has been applied to
the selected region. Playback the score to review the results.
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To create swing playback (for sections of the piece) Expression Tool
method
Note: In order to apply swing playback with an expression, Human
Playback must be set to None.
1. Click the Expression Tool image\Expression_Tool.gif. If you
haven’t yet placed the marking in the score, double-click any note or
measure. When the Expression Selection dialog box appears, click the
desired marking, click Edit, and then skip to the instruction marked
by the asterisk (*).
2. Click the measure or note to which the tempo marking was
attached. Its handle appears.
3. Option-double-click the handle. The Text Expression Designer
dialog box appears.
4. Click the Playback/Record Options. The playback options appear.
5. From the Type popup menu, choose Swing; then enter a number in
the Set to Value box or select a choice from the Swing popup menu.
The number you type into the box indicates a percentage of swing. The
larger the percentage of swing, the more delay before the second note.
6. Click OK (or press return). Any time Finale encounters the
expression you’ve just defined when it plays back your score, the
playback will change to reflect the expression’s swing definition.
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To create swing playback (for sections of the piece) MIDI Tool method
Note: In order to apply swing playback with the MIDI Tool, Human
Playback must be set to None.
1. Click the MIDI Tool image\MIDI_Tool.gif. Select the region
where you want the playback to have a swing feel. You can select one
measure by clicking, additional measures by shift-clicking, a
screenful by drag-enclosing, an entire staff by clicking to the left
of it, or the entire piece by choosing Select All from the Edit Menu.
2. From the MIDI Tool Menu, choose Note Durations.
3. From the MIDI Tool Menu, choose Alter Feel. Type 171 into the
Backbeats By” text box. If you enter a number larger than 171, your
swing effect approaches a dotted-eighth/sixteenth feel, which is
useful in slower swing tempos; if you enter a number smaller than
171, the swing effect approaches an even-eighth-note feel, which
might be better at faster tempos.
4. Click OK (or press return). When you play back the selected
region, you’ll hear genuine swing—Finale is playing the second eighth
note of every eighth-note pair slightly late, just as a jazz player
would.
Note: These instructions assume that the time signature is,2/4, 3/4
or 4/4 ; the “backbeats” that Finale delays are, therefore, every
other eighth note. If the meter is 2/2 , however, the backbeats are
every quarter note, so the swing playback you get may seem erratic if
you were expecting traditional eighth-note swing. To solve the
problem, change the time signature to a quarter-note–based one before
using the MIDI Tool.
Note: Do not use both MIDI Tool Swing and Swing from the Playback
Controls, as these effects are additive.
On Jan 21, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Mark McCarron wrote:
I'm transcribing a piece that has swing 16th's. Is there a way to
make Finale playback the 16th's with a swing feel?
Fin 2009 mac OS 10.4.11
Mark McCarron
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