i heartily second the subject line. i have saved settings for stem+beam alterations, articulations only, measure-attached smart shapes and note-attached smart shapes as saved settings.
e.g., for stems on 8th and smaller durations i extend 12 EVPUs when the note is (treble clef as example) a B or further from the staff. and i reduce stems on most chords by 12 EVPUs. TRICK: make an example with a 16th note in 2 layers and lengthen/shorten both the upstem and downstem. copy this 16th as a source using robert's PI and paste individually or by region. the quantization will omit tuplets (or values smaller than your model), but you can then reapply it starting on notes other than binary-divided beats. maybe easier to understand while doing than reading what i am writing, but paste to a selection starting on the 2nd 16th of a triplet and all notes at an interval of x 16ths from the start of your selection are affected (2nd and 5th 16th-note triplets). >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. :-) -- neueweise -- fonts for new music (and traditional) notation http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts.html shirling & neueweise | http://newmusicnotation.com new music notation + arts management + translation [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]
