I received a Finale blog post in my inbox today: https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/jazz-composition-arranging-tips-edit-filter-paste-multiple/?utm_source=responsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=septembernewsletter
Because there seems to be no commenting on that blog, I am going to comment here. Mass Copy (part of my plugin suite) is superior to Edit Filter/Paste Multiple. Vastly so, I think. The process he shows in the video requires juggling a couple of dialog boxes every time you want to do the process. Mass Copy, by contrast, is a modeless dialog you can leave open on your desktop. Using Mass Copy means you *don't* have to mess with your Edit Filter settings. Mass Copy essentially gives you a scratch Edit Filter. (As many different scratch filters as you like, with Saved Settings. For example, I have a Saved Setting just for replicating cross staffing, including the beam and stem adjustments.) Mass Copy includes a number of items the Edit Filter doesn't. Examples are Tuplets and individual selection of Stem & Beam alterations. The next version will include Beat Chart elements! (That's right, starting with v5.11 you will be able to move the spacing of one beat in one measure to another beat in the same or different measure.) Mass Copy copies Lyric *Assignments*, so it doesn't jumble up the text in your Lyrics Window. Mass Copy does not require you to count how many times you want to replicate a pattern. You just select the replication region and let it do its thing. Mass Copy is based on the metric length of a pattern and does not care about barlines. Until you've used this feature (combined with automatic pattern replication), I will probably have trouble describing just how powerful and seamless this is. Mass Copy can copy between documents. A future version of it will restore copying of expressions between documents. (This was a feature that went away starting in Fin09 due to the complexity around expressions that version introduced.) Mass Copy copies clef changes accurately according to pattern and not barline. My experience with Finale's built-in clef copying is very mixed. It is possible to invoke Mass Copy entirely with keystroke macros so that you never touch the dialog. This includes the replication feature. (Remember, Mass Copy automatically replicates the pattern both horizontally and vertically based on what you select as the target.) There are some items on the Edit Filter that are not available in Mass Copy. Things like MIDI Data and most of the Measure Stack items. But I rarely need to copy these without copying everything. The biggest one is "Note Positioning" (aka Beat Chart Elements). And v5.11 will remedy that with. Rant mode off. :-) _______________________________________________ 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
