Best workaround — turn off chord playback globally, create your own piano realization, and put it in a hidden layer.
Finale's chord symbol playback is TERRIBLE — chord-to-chord voice-leading is completely ignored. The fact that it doesn't work with HP is honestly the least of it. Just write a simple piano part and hide the notation. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On May 2, 2013, at 1:19 AM, Craig Parmerlee <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, this is probably a bug that has no fix, and maybe I'm the only > person in the world who thinks this is important. > > When writing for jazz piano, I usually just put in enough notes to > suggest a style and let the piano player use his own comping skills, > which are almost always better than anything I would write out. So I > depend on the chords in the playback -- not for a realistic comping > sound, but just as a check on the harmonic framework to make sure the > other instruments are compatible. > > For a long time, I've been angry at HP because the swing values came out > inconsistently. I just figured out what was happening was that my > manually entered notes are swinging as they should, but HP ignores the > swing values for any chords that are on offbeats. Obviously if I write a > chord on an eight note offbeat, that is expected to swing just like > notes fully written out. But HP doesn't seem to work that way. > > I wonder if anybody else has seen this. And I am really hoping there is > some easy solution I have overlooked. > > My solution for now is to edit any of the chord definitions for chords > entered on offbeats and make them not play at all. That is better than > playing with bad timing. > > Any better workarounds? > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
