I have found the the whole chord thing unbelievably tedious for as long as I have used Finale -- over 10 releases I'm sure.
I decided to take some time to really try to learn how to make the system work tonight. This has been a miserable failure. My ideal would be to be able to enter chords as easily as you can with Band-in-a-box. If you want a "7 sharp 5 flat 9" chord, you simply type A7#5b9 and there is nothing to it. But not with Finale. First off, that chord isn't even defined to Finale as far as I ca tell, so I decided to try to add it myself. I used the convention that is consistent with the other chords in Finale, typing "A7(#5b9)". That took me to a dialog to define my own chord. I entered the playback intervals. There are lots of bugs in this. I crashed Finale 2014 several times doing that, but I think I eventually ended up with the correct playback. The problem is that the suffix displays with the "b" instead of the flat symbol. No problem, I thought I would go in and edit the symbols. I was able to change that symbol to a flat, displaying adequately. But now the suffix library has been altered so I can no longer enter the suffix using the "b" character, and there is no way to enter the flat symbol when entering chords. I can't find any way to get this to work right. I notice that the default library allows you to type "A7(b9)" and displays it with the flat symbol, but I cannot find any way to get my suffix set up that way. It is really discouraging that after so many releases, this chord thing would be as bad as it is. For example, is there any way to simply display the chord suffixes that are already defined? I don't think so -- I sure couldn't find it. I know I must have created a lot of garbage over the last 3 hours and I'd like to get rid of the useless entries, but it appears Finale doesn't even provide a way to see what is there. And similarly, it seems that there is no way to change the playback voicing (or even see it) once a chord is defined. The "edit suffix" dialog leaves out the playback section altogether. Am I missing something very basic here? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
