Thanks Christopher… I am on 2012, so dead-easy it is. I've started on the project and so far (knock-wood) it's going very smoothly. As with anything there are quirks to adjust to, but once I adjusted, Change Instrument has been just what I needed.
Neal Gittleman On May 21, 2012, at 4:26 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > If you are on 2012, it is dead easy. Click the first measure where > you want the new instrument to appear, or else select a range of > measures, then select Change Instrument from the menu. Playback and > the score staff name will be correct too, if you started with the > Setup Wizard. > > There are really only two issues. One is between flute and piccolo or > clar and bass clar, you won't be able to tell at a glance in which > measure the instrument/transposition change happens. For oboe and > english horn, you will see the key sig change. So I would mark it > with a text expression immediately. Also be aware that instrument > changes do not copy and paste like Staff Styles did, so you can > easily copy music from one staff to another with no worries, and if > you are copying a previous passage in the same staff, you have to > make sure it's on the same instrument. > > The other issue is if you are using chromatic transposition, or non- > standard instruments like horn in E, F, G, A etc. all in the same > staff. That answer is a little longer. > > If you are 2011 or previous, use the staff styles. Assigning them to > metatools would be easiest. Watch when you copy between staves that > you DON'T copy the staff styles! Also watch that you don't hit the > staff style metatool by accident. I used to have entire scores as > Bass Clarinet because 4 was my metatool for that staff style, and I > hit 4 when I was in the Staff Tool instead of the Selection Tool, > intending to invoke Music Spacing. Yikes! > > Christopher > > > On 21-May-12, at 21-May-12 2:55 PM, Neal Gittleman wrote: > >> Greetings… >> >> Soon I'll be embarking on a Finale project that will involve >> several doubling parts (Flute/Piccolo, Oboe/English Horn, Clarinet/ >> Bass Clarinet). I'd appreciate any suggestions people have about >> most efficient procedures of how to do this. Playback is not an >> essential element, though it would certainly make proofreading easier… >> >> Thanks… >> >> Neal Gittleman >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
