Hello, everyone,

Isn't there a chase capability/setting in the playback window?

Michael
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>________________________________
> From: "christopher.sm...@videotron.ca" <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca>
>To: finale@shsu.edu 
>Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 11:15 AM
>Subject: Re: [Finale] Transposition Exp.
> 
>Darcy, they claim that expressions in 2012c now chase correctly if you start 
>playback from the middle of the piece. Have you tested that to see if it fixed 
>now or not? My simple tests all worked, but maybe you spank it harder than I 
>do.
>
>Christopher
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Darcy James Argue <djar...@mac.com>
>Date: Monday, October 1, 2012 1:20 pm
>Subject: Re: [Finale] Transposition Exp.
>To: finale@shsu.edu
>
>> Hi Robert,
>> 
>> Do you generally work with concert pitch scores? I seemed to 
>> recall you normally work with transposed scores. In transposed 
>> scores, you'll only ever see the octave-displaced clefs if you 
>> have "Display in Concert Pitch" temporarily turned on (for, 
>> e.g., note entry). But they don't show up in the printed score 
>> or parts.
>> 
>> I'm wary of your expression-based solution because I find, when 
>> playing back from the middle of the score, expressions that come 
>> before the playback point are not reliably caught by Finale.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> - DJA
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>> 
>> 
>> On 1 Oct 2012, at 9:41 AM, Robert Patterson 
>> <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Octave displaced clefs is certainly one way to do it. I find 
>> them to be
>> > overly fussy and potentially not as clear as regular clefs. 
>> One could
>> > change the glyph for the octave displaced clefs (and I have 
>> tried this),
>> > but then you can't tell the octave-displaced from the regular, 
>> so you could
>> > potentially have errors that cost time figuring out.
>> > 
>> > Another approach I have not tried is applying score-only staff 
>> styles to
>> > the instruments that I want to show in sounding pitch. It 
>> seems like it
>> > might work.
>> > 
>> > But really, the transposing expression works beautifully. You 
>> can put them
>> > into the instrument change names. Then if you hear an 
>> instrument playing
>> > back in the wrong octave, you know you have forgotten the 
>> expression to the
>> > player for changing axes.
>> > 
>> > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Steve Parker 
>> <st...@pinkrat.co.uk> wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Maybe I'm misunderstanding but if I make a concert score 
>> (never by
>> >> choice..) I make liberal use of octave displaced clefs.
>> >> 
>> >> Steve P.
>> >> 
>> >> On 1 Oct 2012, at 04:50, Robert Patterson 
>> <rob...@robertgpatterson.com>>> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >>> I am writing a contrabassoon part in a C score. The way I 
>> usually handle
>> >> C
>> >>> scores is that I label each transposing instrument "sounding 
>> as written",
>> >>> but I do not so label octave transposing instruments. That 
>> allows me to
>> >> not
>> >>> be fussy about them.
>> >>> 
>> >>> But it puts me in a quandary for correct playback, and I had 
>> thought>>> transposing expression would work. But I am finding 
>> (at least sometimes)
>> >>> they don't transpose. Specifically, I have a bassoon/contra 
>> doubling>> part.
>> >>> When the contra part starts I put a hidden "T-12" 
>> transposing expression
>> >> in
>> >>> the score. It was actually working, but then it stopped, and 
>> I have no
>> >> idea
>> >>> what changed. I certainly did not change anything on purpose.
>> >>> 
>> >>> Does anyone know why a transposing exp. might not transpose? Oddly
>> >> enough,
>> >>> my piccolo expressions are transposing. Go figure. The 
>> options in the
>> >>> assignment dialogs for both contra and piccolo exps look the 
>> same to me.
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