With linked parts, there is, still, always the option to extract. One can learn to use the advantages of both for the situation needed. For a fairly complex orchestral score, I typically end up with:
>A score for printing >[sometimes, a score for demo playback, if the hoops required to get the printing score to play correctly get too high and frequent.] >A score for parts - for which linked parts work well for many of the parts. >Some extracted parts - usually the more complicated 2-to-a-staff parts, now extracted, edited, and extracted again or linked. > One folder full of backup versions of the scores, extracted part files, etc., just because I'm too chicken to delete them. But I have to put anything I'm probably never going to use there or it gets hard to figure out what is current, later on. BUT, for a simple score for a 10 to 14 piece ensemble, the kind I arrange a lot of, very quickly, for Christmas and Easter and other special services at my church, I use one part to a staff, linked parts all the way, put the cues in the score, etc. Huge time-saver. Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC Composer, Arranger VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Lee Actor <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your comments. I'm sure many of the issues I've seen have to do > with auto-spacing being on. Still, the concept that I can make an > admittedly stupid error in one place, and not catch it for some time > because > the effect is another place entirely, makes me queasy. > > I have no doubt that one can, with enough workarounds and tiptoeing about, > make linked parts work. My question remains, what compelling reasons are > there for doing so? It still seems to me that using linked parts is more > work, not less. > > -Lee > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of > SN jef chippewa > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 5:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Finale] Linked parts > > > >if something goes wrong, EVERYTHING goes wrong. > > despite my well known dissastisfaction with linked parts, i have to > say this is a gross exaggeration. > > >inability to have different music spacing factors in score and parts). > > this is indeed stupid, but i have resolved the problem simply by > doing EVERYTHING in the score layout first before spacing parts. > also used JW plugin space empty rests recently that was great help in > the parts once i found my ideal settings for it. > > i have a sheet on the wall in front of me with my settings for the SC > / PTs spacing so can change back and forth quickly if needed. and > another sheet nearby with the H pos. settings for individual measures > / notes where running music spacing will change them (so after i run > spacing in the PTs i can "correct" what has been undone in the SC). > > using linked parts is all about deciding how much compromise you can > accept -- in the output and/or workflow -- and where you can accept > compromises are not terribly compromising. > > in any case, you mention having a seperate score for editing of the > parts, you are in effect not really using linked parts as they are > "meant". so none of the stupidities of the current disastrous > implementation of finale's linked parts should be of any both to you > anyways...? > > >easy to inadvertently mess up a carefully laid-out part while > >working on another part of the score (mostly while adding and > >adjusting cues). > > not clear what problems you are running into, but if you make sure > many of the auto features are off you might avoid many problems: > - auto-update MM rests > - auto-spacing > - etc. > > > >inadvertently mess up the flute part while you're editing the oboe part. > > this should not normally happen, unless you forget to uncheck certain > instruments in the "select parts to affect" dialogue when doing > certain operations (layout: systems or freeze measures in x systems. > > -- > > if you can point out some specific things that are getting "messed > up", there could possibly be some simple solutions to at least some > of them. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
