Tempo changes

[HansBerkers]

Hi everyone,

I just discovered a strange behaviour in a longer piece voor large windband with some tempo changes.

I entered the tempo changes using the expression tool with the playback effect set. When I play back the piece with all staves showing all goes well. When I play back with a staff set showing that contains the top most staff, also all goes well. But when I play back showing a staff set that doesn't contain the top most staff, strange things happen.

I discoverd this somewhere in the middle of the piece. I had set the new tempo at a certain point. Six bars after that point a repeat is started and there the tempo is reduced (when showing a staff set not including the top most staff). When the top most staff is showing the tempo doesn't change.

I work on a Mac with OS X 10.11.6 and Finale 25.2.0.79

Has anyone els seen this?

Greetings, Hans

[oldmkvi]

You probably need to have the Tempo Mark show on All Staves for that to work.

[motet]

Use the default Tempo Marks category score list of "top staff" and all should be well.

[HansBerkers]

Hi,
@oldmkvi: I don't want these tempo marks showing on every staff so that is't really an option.
@motet: That is precisely the category (showing on the top staff) I use.
Greetings, Hans

[motet]

When you select the staff set is the tempo mark shown on the top staff? It appears to work for me.

[HansBerkers]

Wich ever staff set I select: the tempo mark is allways shown.

[David Ward]

I have noticed something akin to the behaviour described.

I don't make frequent use of playback, let alone with Staff Sets, but I have in the past noticed that if the Staff Set does not include a stave to which the tempo change is attached in full score Page View, the change is liable to be ignored during playback of that Staff Set.