[Finale] Quarter Tone Playback

2012-04-22 Thread eisenbeil
Hello All, I am writing today because I would like to learn how to have Finale play back quarter tones. I use Finale 2011 on a Mac, version 10.6. A friend sent me a .mus file that displays quarter tone notation and when I open it, the file plays it back correctly. I copied the quarter

[Finale] Quarter Tone Playback

2012-04-19 Thread eisenbeil
Hello All, Regarding the Is FINALE worth continuing? thread, this list forum has been very helpful. I am not a professional engraver orcopyist but I use Finale everyday and read these posts regularly. I’m writing today because I would like to learn how to getFinale to play back quarter

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Leigh, Throw in a expression set to modify the pitchwheel. Assuming you are using the Notation instruments, the maximum pitchbend range (check the Finale documentation for the number) should result in a shift of 12 semitones up (+) or down (-) . So your expression

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Allen Fisher
IIRC, pitch bend goes from -8192 to 8192 with 0 being normal. On Aug 5, 2008, at 6:11 AM, dhbailey wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Leigh, Throw in a expression set to modify the pitchwheel. Assuming you are using the Notation instruments, the maximum pitchbend range (check the Finale

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
The pitchwheel range is NOT 0-127 or -64 to 63. (It wouldn't be very useful if it was.) The range is -8192 (down all the way) to 8191 (up all the way). GPO Notation instruments are supposed to transpose 12 semitones up when the pitchwheel is set to 8191, and 12 semitones down when the

Re(2): [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Leigh Daniels
Thanks, Darcy! That did it! **Leigh On Tue, Aug 5, 2008, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GPO Notation instruments are supposed to transpose 12 semitones up when the pitchwheel is set to 8191, and 12 semitones down when the pitchwheel is set to -8192. (In earlier versions, some of

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Set it to French Horn. They are usually a quarter tone flat. :) Leigh Daniels wrote: Hello All, I'm working on piece which has a cello one quarter-tone below a violin. Is there a way to get FinMac2008b to make the cello play a quarter-tone flat? I'm using the full GPO. **Leigh

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-05 Thread Allen Fisher
Hey-- I resemble that remark... On Aug 5, 2008, at 9:02 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: Set it to French Horn. They are usually a quarter tone flat. :) Leigh Daniels wrote: Hello All, I'm working on piece which has a cello one quarter-tone below a violin. Is there a way to get FinMac2008b

[Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-04 Thread Leigh Daniels
Hello All, I'm working on piece which has a cello one quarter-tone below a violin. Is there a way to get FinMac2008b to make the cello play a quarter-tone flat? I'm using the full GPO. **Leigh ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Leigh, Throw in a expression set to modify the pitchwheel. Assuming you are using the Notation instruments, the maximum pitchbend range (check the Finale documentation for the number) should result in a shift of 12 semitones up (+) or down (-) . So your expression should drop the

Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone Playback

2008-08-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Forgot to mention that you'll need a second expression to return pitchwheel to zero afterwards. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 5 Aug 2008, at 1:23 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Leigh, Throw in a expression set to modify the pitchwheel. Assuming you are using the

[Finale] Quarter-tone playback

2005-02-01 Thread Taris L Flashpaw
I've followed the OLD on creating quarter-tone accidentals, but now I need to tap the list's collective wisdom on making quarter-tones playback. I figure I'll need to use pitch bend to do it, but for that I'd need to know how big to bend for a semitone (then divide by 2 for the quarter-tone).