Clear rests?

[John Ruggero]

Is there a way to clear (not hide) all rests from a selected area?

[N Grossingink]

Clearing the rests will cause any note values present to shift towards the left. Perhaps a screenshot of a portion of the file where you want rests cleared will help others, especially me, to understand what you want to accomplish.

N.

[John Ruggero]

Sorry if that was cryptic, N. I have a large area of music in which I want to clear all the rests and just leave the notes behind. I can't find a plugin that will do that. It isn't a problem that the notes will move to the left, as always, when a rest is deleted.

[BuonTempi]

Do you mean "Not Hide", or "Remove Manual Adjustments"?


For the former, there's a Show Rests plug-in. For the latter, does JW Change have nothing?

[HaraldS]

I just hacked together this quick and short JWLua code. Does it do what you need?

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-- set all rests's durations in the selected region to 0
for e in eachentrysaved(finenv.Region()) do
    if  e:IsRest() then e.Duration = 0 end
end

-- delete all entries with a duration of 0
for m, s in eachcell(finenv.Region()) do
   local noteentrycell = finale.FCNoteEntryCell(m, s)
   noteentrycell:Load()
   local myBooleanResult = noteentrycell:DeleteAllNullEntries()
end

Harald

[John Ruggero]

I just hacked together this quick and short JWLua code. Does it do what you need?

Thank you very much, HaraldS. Knowing you, it probably works perfectly, but I don't know how to install it or check it.

[motet]

Set the font for rests to 1 pt. Maestro and they will disappear.

[HaraldS]

Thank you very much, HaraldS. Knowing you, it probably works perfectly, but I don't know how to install it or check it.

Can you open the JWLua plugin window? If yes, select the "Development" tab and copy&paste the code into it. Then select a region in your document and hit the "Run Script" button in the lower right area of the JWLua window. Then all rests should be removed. Works for me in 2014.5 ... if it doesn't work for you, tell me, please.

I wonder if changing the font for rests would work. You'd need some all-blank font, I guess.

That would leave the entries intact, e.g. you could still access them via the edit frame dialog in speedy. It would be the same like hiding the rests, they would still be taken into account for layout. I think, John wants them deleted, not just hidden, so that's what the script does.

Harald

[motet]

I amended my posting. Setting the rest font to 1pt will work, if that's what he wants, but it looks like I indeed misunderstood.

[N Grossingink]

I tried Harald's Lua script. It does what he intended except that (from what I can see) longer note values will not travel leftwards across a barline. For example, a quarter rest on beat 4 and whole note on beat 1 of the next measure - the rest is removed but the whole note stays where it is.

Perhaps the entire region to be stripped of rests needs to be changed into 1 long measure with the appropriate time signature and then the plugin applied. Then, rebarred back to the original meter.

N.

[John Ruggero]

Harald, I just tried it and it does indeed do exactly what was needed. Can you put into a format that will install? Or maybe this is something that I can do already but don't know how? This is a capability that I don't think has been addressed, and I would love to add it to my plugin collection.

N. I wanted the notes to stay strictly within their current measures, so Harald's script is perfect. Your system would work well if this was not wanted.

[HaraldS]

Harald, I just tried it and it does indeed do exactly what was needed. Can you put into a format that will install? Or maybe this is something that I can do already but don't know how? This is a capability that I don't think has been addressed, and I would love to add it to my plugin collection.

Thanks, you're welcome!
I added the file "Delete Rests.lua" in the zip folder below, as .lua doesn't seem to be an allowed file type for direct upload into this forum.

Harald

[John Ruggero]

Thanks so much, HaraldS!