Write the piece in 12/8? Chuck
On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:02 AM, George Ports wrote: > Hi Michael, > What you suggested with Speedy works real good except it works only once. I > have to hit control+3 on each set of 1/8 note triplets. I tried to hit caps > lock first to hold all the notes to triplets to no avail. > I use 'Simple Entry' almost always and is where I ran into the problem. > What I'd really wish I could do is be able to select 'Set Default' in the > 'tuplet definition menu' and make it stay 1/8 triplets as a default but, it > keeps going back to: 3 eighths in the space of 2 eighth notes (instead of 3 > eighths in the space of 1 quarter note). There's got to be some way to set > the default and make it stick, especially since it was that way originally. > I can work around all this but, it is real time consuming. > Thanks for all your help. If you run across a way to make the default to stay > in Simple entry, could you let me know? > Thanks again, > George > ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 1:58 PM > Subject: Re: [Finale] Tuplets Default > > > I would guess that it should work for all recent versions on either platform? > I was afraid that might be the case that it would not hold from one instance > to another. > > > There is probably another preference setting somewhere in the bowels of the > application? > This is what I found in the manual under tuplets: > > > > > To en ter tuplets with the Speedy Entry Tool > > 1. Click the Speedy Entry Tool image\Simple_Entry_Tool.gif, and click the > measure in question. The editing frame appears. > 2. If MIDI is not being used, place the cursor on the correct pitch. > 3. Press option -number in the number keypad. You can press any number > between 2 and 8 to specify the tuplet value that you’re about to enter. When > you do so, the number you pressed appears in the upper right corner of the > editing frame, telling you that Finale is ready to group the next notes you > enter as a tuplet defined by that number. If you need to enter a more complex > tuplet (or want to specify a particular bracket or slur configuration), press > option –1, and the Tuplet Definition dialog box will appear (see Tuplet > Definition dialog box ). > 4. Enter the notes of the tuplet. The value of the first note you enter > tells Finale whether you’re entering an eighth-note tuplet, quarter-note > tuplet, and so on. Finale automatically groups them and brackets them > according to the default visual tuplet settings (see “ To predefine the > appearance of tuplets , ” below). To enter many tuplets in a row, see To > enter many notes of the same value (hands-free MIDI method) . > > > Have you looked here, yet? > > Michael > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Ports" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:24:03 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: Re: [Finale] Tuplets Default > > I tried that but it won't stay in the setting I chose. I can do it with one > set of triplets but, it won't stay that way even though I selected the > default button. By the way, I forgot to mention that I am using WinFin 2006b > but, it still should work the same shouldn't it? How can I get it to stay as > a default. I tried to find a way to set it in the 'document options but, > couldn't a way to do that either. > George > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "J D Thomas" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:06 AM > Subject: Re: [Finale] Tuplets Default > > >> I'm on FinMac2K7, and IIRC, you double click the tuplet tool and set your >> defaults in the resulting dialog box. >> >> J D Thomas >> ThomaStudios >> >> On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:58 AM, George Ports wrote: >> >>> I can not (for the life of me) make the original 1/8 note triplets be >>> the default. It is set up for (6) sixteenths and I can't get it to stay >>> with (3) eighths. Can someone please help me to set my default to (3) >>> 1/8 note triplets? Any help would surely be appreciated. >>> Thank you, >>> George Ports >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
