To get the hairpins to behave correctly, I recommend using time signatures that are only graphically different and using invisible tuplets to line up the notes. (You can do one tuplet per bar and copy it easily with a plugin like my Mass Copy plugin.) That is, set up an independent time signature that is 4/4 showing as 12/8 then apply an invisible tuplet of 6 in the time of 4 quarters at the beginning of each "12/8" bar.
On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:14 PM Chuck Israels <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As experienced as I am with Finale, I’ve never tried this — 12/8 on some > staves and 4/4 on others with the dotted quarter and quarter being equal. > I’m writing some things for classical string players and classical > guitarists, and getting anticipations played correctly requires triple > subdivisions of the quarter note. People used to jazz notation interpret > eight notes in context, but I can’t expect even really good musicians > without that experience to know when the eighths are more or less equal and > when they’re swung, so I end up writing music cluttered with triplets. > Being able to switch between 12/8 and 4/4 would result in a cleaner look. > > Have any of you done this? Is it practical? > > Thanks, > > Chuck > > Chuck Israels > [email protected] > (360) 201-3434 > > 6935 SW 45th Ave. > Portland OR 97219 > > <chuckisraelsjazz.com> > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
