jef, as you probably know voices predate layers, and they have the feel of a legacy feature. (some newer features seem to be ignorant of voices.) i nevertheless find them to be useful in certain circumstances. a few that come to mind are:
1. splitting into 2 voices for just a beat or two. using voices instead of layers allows me not to have to freeze stems, slurs, ties, artic, etc. in other parts of the measure. 2. showing 2 parts on a cue. in this case, layers are off-limits if you care about playback, so i use v1/v2 to show the 2 parts both in layer 4. (usually i only encounter this issue in a single transitional bar.) 3. sometimes in contrapuntal keyboard music layers aren't enough. or it is easier to put the extra notes in voices rather than using a third or fourth layer. 4. voices can be handy if there are ties over the barline from double to single line or vice versa. oh i don't understand how you use this keyboard with no caps! On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:48 AM, SN jef chippewa < [email protected]> wrote: > > i remember hating using voices (as opposed to separate layers) but > thought i would try it out again and find i still hate it. is there > some amazing advantage of using voices that i am simply not aware of? > i find it a total pain to use and obviously there is no way of seeing > which music (stems up/dpwn) are in which voice when returning to > voice-entered measures later. > > trying to edit or erase causes ridiculous behaviour (5-dotted 8th) or > requires me to enter the measure from scratch again. this makes me > wonder about the stability of this thing when upgrading to a new > version. > > is it just me? or do voices really suck as badly as i feel right this > moment? > > thanks. > > -- > > NEW RELEASE!!! neueweise -- fonts for new music and traditional notation > http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts > > shirling & neueweise | http://newmusicnotation.com > new music notation + translation + arts management > [FB] http://facebook.com/neueweise | [TW] http://twitter.com/neueweise > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
