Hi Scott,
I'd be happy to talk about this with you, but I'm afraid I can't be all that
helpful, since I don't often write for percussion (and no, I don't do much
sophisticated stuff bypassing Finale playback).
What I have done is, on the percussion track, play up and down my midi keyboard
Greetings!
I purchased the Berklee School of Music's book on Finale and worked through
most of the book. The book is updated for Finale 2012 and I picked up a ton of
different ways of using Finale. There are some excellent suggestions on how to
work with the percussion section, also, of