I use voices all the time, especially in the following situations: 1) Importing MIDI files that have divisis within tracks (MIDI import doesn't support divisis in layers, only voices) 2) Entering drum set parts that have stems up/stems down notation on just a beat or two in a measure, or if I want to keep everything in one layer so that I can apply an alternate notation staff style and still hear playback. 3) Situations where I want to have a divisi on just a beat or two in a measure. This happens most frequently in orchestral string staves. 4) Stem up/stem down divisis where the rests are in common but the notes are different (only in versions prior to Finale 2014, which is the first version that lines up common rests between different layers)
I haven't had any problems at all with entering, editing or deleting music in different voices, and I've become rather adept with the apostrophe key in Speedy Entry. There's a little indicator in the corner of the Speedy frame that tells you exactly the voice in which you are working, so it's quite easy to use. Another cool thing about voices is that you can control the vertical position of rests entered in voice 2 with the cursor position when you enter them. -Brian Williams On 2/2/15, 10:00 AM, "finale-requ...@shsu.edu" <finale-requ...@shsu.edu> wrote: >Message: 2 >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:48:30 +0100 >From: SN jef chippewa <shirl...@newmusicnotation.com> >Subject: [Finale] voices vs layers >To: <finale@shsu.edu> >Message-ID: <p06240851d0f5680d6251@[192.168.1.29]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > >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. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
