Hi Gerald, I recently started using expressions with hidden text to trigger pizz and arco, and it even works with spacebar/click playback. It's been very helpful not waiting for HP to load each time I want to hear how a small snippet of pizz or arco texture works in a score.
Don Hart On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:46 PM, GERALD BERG <[email protected]> wrote: > Another reason to utilize voices is because of midi commands such as pizz. > and arco. Layers are useful for differentiating between arco and pizz. > without having to always playback from measure 1. Voices become essential > in that case to avoid snarling the procedure. GJB > From: Brian Williams <[email protected]> > To: Finale Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 2:30 PM > Subject: Re: [Finale] voices vs layers > > 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, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >Message: 2 > >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:48:30 +0100 > >From: SN jef chippewa <[email protected]> > >Subject: [Finale] voices vs layers > >To: <[email protected]> > >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 > [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] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
